"Urizen in Fetters, Tears streaming fr
om his eyes", 1794 William Blake
"Urizen in Fetters, Tears streaming fr
om his eyes", 1794 William Blake
The Offical Medallion of the Britis
h Anti-Slavery Society, 1795 Josiah Wedgwood
"Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave",
1796 William Blake
"A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to
a Gallows", William Blake (Image Credit: James Ford Bell Library, University of
Minnesota)
"The Execution of Breaking on the Rack",
William Blake
Illustration of slaves packed in a ship
for the Middle Passage-Thomas Clarkson
18th Century tombstones in a suburb of B
ristol suggesting that Afrcans may be as good as whites in the eyes of God
The Black Boy Inn, located in Bristol
was often the site of lectures by Clarkson and Coleridge
"Los, symbol of poetic genius, consume
d by flames", William Blake Along with "Urizen in Fetters" it is possible to se
e how descriptions of the Middle Passage began affecting art.
Assorted devices used to torture
slaves.
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