Title
Plan of an African Ship’s Lower Deck, with Negroes, in the Proportion of Not Quite One to a Ton
Coverage
Philadelphia
Publisher
Mathew Carey
Date
January–June 1789
Description
Many eighteenth-century American magazines had antislavery content aimed particularly at the evils of the slave trade, including Benjamin Rush’s essays in Columbian and Noah Webster’s in his American Magazine. The most vocal was Mathew Carey’s American Museum, which published an article entitled “Remarks on the Slave Trade” in May 1789 accompanied by a stunningly graphic engraving of a fully loaded slave ship.
Source
The American Museum, or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces