COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
84-95
Title:
BARBARITIES in the WEST INDIES
Place:
[London]
Publisher:
Pubd. ... by H Humphrey N. 18 Old Bond Street.
Date:
1791. April 23
Image technique:
Etching, colored
Image dimensions:
24.6 x 35 cm. (plate mark)
Narrative description:
Debate on William Wilberforce's motion for abolishing the slave trade (April 18, 1791). Images include: sugar boiling house; plantation overseer; black slave. .
References:
BM 7848
Notes:
Explanation, below title, relates the story of an overseer who threw a slave into a vat of boiling cane juice. The slave died and the only punishment the overseer received was to replace the slave and be dismissed from his job.
Subject:
Abolition of the slave trade Slavery--West Indies
Normalized date:
1791
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