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Brooks (or Brook, Brookes) was a British slave ship launched at Liverpool in 1781. She became infamous after prints of her were published in 1788. Between 1782 and 1804, she made 11 voyages from Liverpool in the triangular slave trade in enslaved people (for the Brooks, England, to Africa, to the Caribbean, and back to England).
Brookes (ship).From the British Library: "This diagram of the 'Brookes' slave ship, which transported enslaved Africans to the Caribbean, is probably the most widely copied and powerful image used by those who campaigned to end the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The slave ship Le Saphir, 1741 Diagram of the Brooks (1781), a four-deck large slave ship. Thomas Clarkson: The cries of Africa to the inhabitants of Europe The slave-ship Veloz, illustrated in 1830. It held over 550 slaves. [1] This is a list of slave ships.
The well-known slave ship Brookes was limited to carrying 454 people; it had previously transported as many as 609 enslaved. [1] Olaudah Equiano was among the supporters of the act, but it was opposed by some abolitionists, such as William Wilberforce , who feared it would establish the idea that the slave trade simply needed reform and ...
Map of the triangular trade Diagram of a slave ship from the Atlantic slave trade. (From an Abstract of Evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in 1790 and 1791.) Description of the Brookes, a British slave ship, 1787
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Brooks (1781 ship), La Bouche du Roi (artwork), Slave Trade Act 1788, Slave ship, Thomas Clarkson, Triangular trade, Zong massacre FP category for this image Not entirely sure; best options I think would be Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Water , Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others , or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings ...
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