Black History Month - Day 4-5

The Middle Passage - Three Lessons Our Children Need to Learn

Feb 05, 2023

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Shows the two major slave decks and how enslaved Africans were crammed into them. Top, Plan of the Platform, shows the deck which held females, ranged around its outer circumference; in the center, the label Cargaison Anglaises de Negres (English Cargo of Negroes). The bottom shows the plan of the main deck (Plan du Grand Pont), where males were kept. This image seems to be derived from the well-known illustration of the slave ship Brookes (see images E014, Wad-1, on this website), but with its own embellishments. For example, what appears to be a woman giving birth is shown on the top deck, just below the word Cargaison. (This feature was noticed by Sylvia Frey, and brought to our attention by Leslie Tobias Olson). This pamphlet appears to be the French translation of some abstract or abridgment of evidence given before a British House of Commons committee investigating the Atlantic slave trade in the early 1790s. — http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2004

I hope everyone is having a wonderful February weekend. I’m continuing my series on Black History Month by combining the two days together (4th and 5th) of this weekend. Part of the reason is, I got caught up Saturday morning writing about the "Wrecking Ball" that Iowa Republicans are taking to the…

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