Printing Abolition: How the Slave Trade Was Abolished in Britain
Suarez provides a compelling, richly illustrated description about a group of printers who were instrumental in making the antislavery movement happen in England via their broadside engraving diagramming human cargo on the slave ship Brookes.
Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
February 10, 201954m 51s
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Show Notes
Michael Suarez is the director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. A renowned historian, author and worldwide leader of rare book scholarship interests, he co-edited The Oxford Companion to the Book. Suarez will provide us with a compelling, richly illustrated description about how a group of printers were instrumental in making the antislavery movement happen in England. Their broadside engraving with an image diagramming human cargo on the Brookes, a slave ship, became a force for political change in the worldwide abolitionist movement. MLF Organizer: Anne W. Smith Notes: MLF: Arts
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