Revolt Aboard Slave Ship, 1787
Description
Title and caption, Representation of an Insurrection on board a Slave-Ship. Shewing how the crew fire upon the unhappy slaves from behind the Barricado, erected on board all slave ships, as a security whenever such commotions may happen. Enlarged section from Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship, a fold out drawing included in the Wadstrom volume. Wadstrom notes It was taken from a sketch which, with the explanation attached, was communicated to him [Wadstrom] at Goree in 1787.
Source
Carl B. Wadstrom, An Essay on Colonization, particularly applied to the Western coast of Africa... in Two Parts (London, 1794, 1795), fold-out included in pocket attached to cover.
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
wad-2
Spatial Coverage
Atlantic
Citation
"Revolt Aboard Slave Ship, 1787", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed December 1, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2060
![Title and caption, Representation of an Insurrection on board a Slave-Ship. Shewing how the crew fire upon the unhappy slaves from behind the Barricado, erected on board all slave ships, as a security whenever such commotions may happen. Enlarged section from Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship, a fold out drawing included in the Wadstrom volume. Wadstrom notes It was taken from a sketch which, with the explanation attached, was communicated to him [Wadstrom] at Goree in 1787.](http://www.slaveryimages.org/files/large/23950937e2f0ac725ecb7c26cc44b492aae31d3f.jpg)
