1793 Hand Colored Copper Engraving "The Cruel Treatment of the Slaves in the West Indies"

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1793 Hand Colored Copper Engraving "The Cruel Treatment of the Slaves in the West Indies" Published October 29th 1793, London. 14"X18" hand colored copper engraving featuring a powerful 4 stanza poem. 1st stanza reads: Come all you tender harted Christians, And listen to this mournful tale, Those Moving Times which I shall mention, Deserves an everlasting name, It is concering those slaves and Negroes, That in the West Indies are sold, to hear their cruel usage, Enough to make ones blood run cold