Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon

by Cheryl Finley

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How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance

One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread commercial practice for what it really was--shocking, immoral, barbaric, unimaginable. Printed as handbills and broadsides,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691241066

ISBN13:9780691241067

Release Date:September 2022

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 7.5" x 10.4"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography Social Science Social Sciences

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