{"id":95,"date":"2021-09-14T18:47:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2021-09-28T21:27:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T21:27:32","slug":"brooks-slave-ship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/brooks-slave-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Slave Ship Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2021\/09\/Slave-Ship-Brooks.jpg\" alt=\"Diagram of ship's hull showing extremely confined and crowded layout of enslaved passengers\" class=\"wp-image-67\" width=\"525\" height=\"318\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In his book <em>The Slave Ship: A Human History<\/em> (2007), Marcus Rediker explains that &#8220;the shipbuilder&#8217;s diagram of the slave ship <em>Brooks<\/em>, which showed 482 &#8216;tight-packed&#8217; slaves distributed around the decks of the vessel, eventually helped the movement abolish the slave trade.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rediker notes that: &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Making the slave ship real was accomplished in a variety of ways\u2014in pamphlets, speeches, lectures, and poetry, for example\u2014but probably the most powerful means was visual. Abolitionists produced images of the slave ship that would prove to be among the most effective propaganda any social movement has ever created. The best known of these, in its own day and since, was the slave ship <em>Brooks<\/em>, first drawn and published by William Elford and the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in November 1788. The <em>Brooks <\/em>would be redrawn and republished many times around the Atlantic in the years that followed, and indeed it would come to epitomize the cruelties of the Atlantic slave trade in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the many-sided struggles against it. Thomas Clarkson explained in his history of the abolitionist movement that the image made \u201can instantaneous impression of horror upon all who saw it.\u201d It gave viewers \u201ca much better idea than they could otherwise have had of the horrors of [the Africans\u2019] transportation, and contributed greatly . . . to impress the public in favour of our cause.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007), Marcus Rediker explains that &#8220;the shipbuilder&#8217;s diagram of the slave ship Brooks, which showed 482 &#8216;tight-packed&#8217; slaves distributed around the decks of the vessel, eventually helped the movement abolish the slave trade.&#8221; Rediker notes that: &nbsp; Making the slave ship real was accomplished in a <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/brooks-slave-ship\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Slave Ship Brooks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}