A haunting sketch of a ship captain assaulting a teenage slave girl who later died was a major driving force behind the abolitionist movement, experts have revealed. Captain John Kimber was accused of suspending the 15-year-old child by her ankle while whipping her on deck with a cat o’ nine tails, before she died five days later. The punishment on the merchant ship Recovery travelling from modern-day Nigeria to Grenada in 1791 generated huge public interest in the UK when it was revealed.
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