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Description: | Map of the world coloured to show the status of the sugar-growing countries, and with narration arguing that the retention of colonial slavery increases the price of sugar in Britain. The map has the caption: ?Chart of the World, on Mercator?s projection. Illustrative of the impolicy of slavery?.
The work is a plate from Thomas Clarkson, 'The history of the rise, progress and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave-trade by the British Parliament' (J. W. Parker, London, 1839).
caption: Chart of the world illustrating the impolicy of slavery (PBB3489)
caption: Chart of the World | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | J. Cross | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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