Page from a book on an unidentified book on slavery, with Britannia interrupting a slave owner punishing two enslaved people

An engraving depicting two slaves kneeling in chains. A European slave-driver has dropped his whip and in the background is a woman in classical dress. The caption reads ‘But soon as approaching the land,/ That Goddess-like Woman he view’d;/ The scourge he let fall from his hand,/ with the blood of his subjects imbrued.’

The page has been cut from a book.

Object Details

ID: ZBA2584
Collection: Special collections
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Date made: circa 1800
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund
Measurements: sheet: 258 x 208 mm
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