{"id":2190,"date":"2016-07-31T09:15:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/?page_id=2190"},"modified":"2016-07-31T09:15:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T14:15:20","slug":"brookes-print","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/brookes-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookes print"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2191\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-content\/uploads\/slaveshipbrooksreduced-1000x1182.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2191\" class=\"wp-image-2191 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-content\/uploads\/slaveshipbrooksreduced-1000x1182.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cStowage of the British slave ship Brookes under the regulated slave trade act of 1788,\u201d 1789, via Wikimedia. Slave ships transported 11-12 million Africans to destinations in North and South America, but it was not until the end of the 18th century that any regulation was introduced. The Brookes print dates to after the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788, but still shows enslaved Africans chained in rows using iron leg shackles. The slave ship Brookes was allowed to carry up to 454 slaves, allotting 6 feet (1.8 m) by 1 foot 4 inches (0.41 m) to each man; 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) by 1 foot 4 inches (0.41 m) to each women, and 5 feet (1.5 m) by 1 foot 2 inches (0.36 m) to each child, but one slave trader alleged that before 1788, the ship carried as many as 609 slaves.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-content\/uploads\/slaveshipbrooksreduced-1000x1182.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-content\/uploads\/slaveshipbrooksreduced-1000x1182-250x295.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-content\/uploads\/slaveshipbrooksreduced-1000x1182-500x591.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-content\/uploads\/slaveshipbrooksreduced-1000x1182-624x737.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cStowage of the British slave ship Brookes under the regulated slave trade act of 1788,\u201d 1789, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Slaveshipposter.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia<\/a>. Slave ships transported 11-12 million Africans to destinations in North and South America, but it was not until the end of the 18th century that any regulation was introduced. The Brookes print dates to after the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788, but still shows enslaved Africans chained in rows using iron leg shackles. The slave ship Brookes was allowed to carry up to 454 slaves, allotting 6 feet (1.8 m) by 1 foot 4 inches (0.41 m) to each man; 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) by 1 foot 4 inches (0.41 m) to each women, and 5 feet (1.5 m) by 1 foot 2 inches (0.36 m) to each child, but one slave trader alleged that before 1788, the ship carried as many as 609 slaves.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2190","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2190\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}