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The Humble Petition of the West India Planters to the People of England with every Englishman's Answer
This abolitionist poem uses the voice of the planters to detail the terrible conditions on Caribbean sugar plantations and their various justifications for the continuation of colonial slavery. It concludes with an appeal to the buy West Indian sugar. This is followed by ‘Every Englishman’s answer’: ‘Go, and loosen the captives! No longer will I/ Spend a farthing, thou human-flesh-monger, with the[e]/ For the sake of a penny, I never will buy/ E’en an ounce of thy sugar, till Negroes are free’.
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Object Details
| ID: | ZBA2709 |
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| Collection: | Fine art; Special collections |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | White, B. |
| Date made: | circa 1830 |
| Exhibition: | The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire; Enslavement and Resistance |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 112 mm x 168 mm; Image: 92 mm x 152 mm |