The Lower Deck of a Guinea Man in the Last Century Lithograph

ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Lithograph entitled "THE LOWER DECK OF A GUINEA MAN IN THE LAST CENTURY," depicting a slave ship plying between Africa and America before the Civil War. Shows the lower deck with slaves "packed tight in the most inhuman way," as one physician observed, "drawing their breath with all those laborious and anxious efforts for life which are observed in expiring animals, subjected by experiment to foul air." 19th century illustration. BPA2# 52