Transatlantic Slave Trade - In Silence, pass the image around the circle until it returns to the Circle Keeper. Pass around the image again and read the following:These plans of the slave ship Brookes, packed with 454 slaves were made in 1789 by Thomas Clarkson, one of the leaders of the abolitionists for a report to Parliament. The pictures were printed onto 7,000 posters of the ship and published all over Britain. The Brookes actually carried 740 slaves on one voyage. This had been done by locking them 'spoonwise' (that is sitting in lines between each other's knees). Another common way to 'tight pack' slaves was by making them lie on their sides, not on their backs.After the Regulation Act of 1788, the Brookes was allowed to carry only 454 slaves, which gave a space of 6 ft. by 1 ft. 4 in. to each man; 5 ft. 10 in. by 1 ft. 4 in. to each woman, and 5 ft. by 1 ft. 2 in. to each boy. The Brookes was 100 ft. long and 25 ft. wide, giving it deck-space of c. 3,000 sq. ft.
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