Artist's Recreation of the English Merchant Slaver, Henrietta Marie

Description

This drawing is modern-day artist's reconstruction and a profile view of the Henrietta Marie. The Henrietta Marie transported about 200 slaves from the Bight of Biafra to Jamaica in 1699-1700. Although these are not historical images, they accurately represent the ship.

Source

Drawing by Peter Copeland, in David Moore, Site Report: Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the Shipwreck Henrietta Marie (Key West, Florida: Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society, 1997), p. v-ii.

Creator

Copeland, Peter

Language

English

Rights

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Identifier

F014

Spatial Coverage

Atlantic

Item sets

Slave Ships & the Atlantic Crossing (Middle Passage)

Citation

"Artist's Recreation of the English Merchant Slaver, Henrietta Marie", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed August 5, 2020, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2616
This drawing is modern-day artist's reconstruction and a profile view of the Henrietta Marie. The Henrietta Marie transported about 200 slaves from the Bight of Biafra to Jamaica in 1699-1700. Although these are not historical images, they accurately represent the ship.
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