Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

Henry Moses (1782-1870), artist. Joseph Collyer (1748-1827), engraver. Dedicated to Prince William Frederic, Duke of Gloucester, to commemorate the abolition of the slave trade by Great Britain in 1807.

Britannia is trampling on the emblems of slavery, holding a banner declaring the abolition and attending to the voices of justice and religion. On the left, the trade is represented by a ship freighted with slaves and by the standard on which is inscribed "The sufferings of the Negroes." On the right is a bust of abolitionist William Wilberforce with a scroll containing the names of the principal speakers in favor of the abolition in both houses of Parliament.