I still remember in my art history class when my professor showed us J.M.W. Turner’s “The Slave Ship.” The painting is a ...

click image for close-up Only two images were ever officially sponsored by England's Abolitionist Society. One was the Society's emblem. The other was this plan of the Liverpool slave ship, the ...

The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published in an abolitionist broadside by William Elford and the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in ...