‘The Brookes print was an image widely used by campaigners for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. First designed inPlymouth, UK, in 1788 by the Plymouth Chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and depicting the conditions on board the slave ship Brookes.’
Ancient evil + early capitalism = horror
It’s truly dreadful to picture humans packed, like cargo, into the belly of a ship.
un.real.