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Abolition of the slave trade cartoon
The abolition of the slave trade Or the inhumanity of dealers in human flesh exemplified in Captn. Kimber's treatment of a young Negro girl of 15 for her virjen (sic) modesty. Print shows sailor on a slave ship suspending an African girl by her ankle from a rope over a pulley. Captain John Kimber stands on the left with a whip in his hand. Published in London in 1792; attributed to Isaac Cruikshank.
Image ID: 000708
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Image size: 9.6 Mpixels (27.5 MB uncompressed) - 3608x2661 pixels (12.0x8.8 in / 30.5x22.5 cm at 300 ppi)
Image keywords: 1700s, 18th-century, Americas, Early-Modern, England, Eon3744, EonBargain, Illustrations, Isaac Cruikshank, John Kimber, London, People, Politics-Government-Law, abolition, political cartoons, politics, ships, slave trade, slavery, slaves, violence, whips