‘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.
Evil = horror !
Slavery doesn’t require capitalism to be horrific. There have always been and are, today, plenty of slaves in non-capitalistic cultures.
Joot, sad but true. The trade in women as sex slaves is worldwide, and continues unabated to this day. And let’s not forget about using children as sex toys.