CARLI Digital Collections Featured Image: Slave ship diagram

This diagram of a slave ship, which includes engraved drawings of the longitudinal section of the ship and plans of the upper deck, wings, and lower deck, is signed S. Cread, delineator, and J. Hawksworth, sculptor. The caption at top identifies the ship as “the brig Vigilante from Nantes, a vessel employed in the Slave Trade, which was captured by Lieutenant Mildmay in the River Bonny, on the Coast of Africa, on the 15th of April 1822.”

The digital collection consists of items related to the British administration of Sierra Leone, including public and private papers of British officials in the colony of Sierra Leone, 1792-1825. These items include pages from a diary kept by John Clarkson detailing the founding of Freetown, letters written by William Wilberforce, a plan of Freetown, a ship charter, and a Sierra Leone Company advertisement for free settlement on the coast of Africa.

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