Barbarities in the West Indies, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1791 by James Gillray
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illustration for an anti-slavery speech made by William Wilberforce (1759-1835) in 1791; a slave is held down in a vat of boiling sugar;
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The Artist: James Gillray
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