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Description: Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon
~NEARLY SINCE ITS CONCEPTION in 1788, the slave ship icon has embodied religious meaning. The committee of abolitionists who conceived it consisted of Quakers and radical Christians who found its visual impact an able weapon in their arsenal of images arrayed to win popular support for ending the slave trade. To be sure, in their hands the image was circulated and...
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.211-231
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00260.010

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