Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon

by Cheryl Finley

Book Overview

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"