Detail View: JCB Political Cartoons: BARBARITIES in the WEST INDIES
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Accession number:
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84-95
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Title:
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BARBARITIES in the WEST INDIES
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Place:
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[London]
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Publisher:
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Pubd. ... by H Humphrey N. 18 Old Bond Street.
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Date:
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1791. April 23
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Image technique:
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Etching, colored
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Image dimensions:
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24.6 x 35 cm. (plate mark)
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Narrative description:
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Debate on William Wilberforce's motion for abolishing the slave trade (April 18, 1791). Images include: sugar boiling house; plantation overseer; black slave. .
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References:
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BM 7848
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Notes:
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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.
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Subject:
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Abolition of the slave trade Slavery--West Indies
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Normalized date:
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1791
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