Large-format broadside illustration from Carl Bernhard Wadstrom's An essay on colonization, partic���_ularly applied to the western coast of Africa, with some free thoughts on cultivation and commerce; also brief descriptions of the colonies already formed, or attempted in Africa, including those of Sierra Leone and Bulama ... (London, 1794).
The broadside displays seven figures of the method of stowing slaves. The slaves are bound and stowed like cargo in the ship Brooks. To the center right is a representation of an insurrection onboard a slave ship. The crew fires at the uprising slaves behind barricades.
