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Artefact Model of the 'Brookes', slave shipModel of the 'Brookes', slave ship

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Middle Passage

This is a wooden model of the Brookes, owned by a Liverpool family, which carried slaves from the West coast of Africa to Jamaica in the West Indies. Two models of the ship were commissioned by Thomas Clarkson around 1790, after a plan of the Brookes was successfully produced on posters as part of the abolition campaign. The extreme overcrowding of enslaved Africans packed into the ship

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