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Drunken sailors Long Caption: Inscribed 'J. Locker 1829'. Part of the Michael Graham-Stewart slavery collection. For further information on black sailors see Bolster (1997:4): 'ships and boats were a pipeline to freedom and a refuge for slaves on the lam... Seamen wrote the first six autobiographies of blacks published in English before 1800.' Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund Object: ZBA2671 Artist: John Locker Date: 1829 Medium: watercolour Size: 252 mm x 282 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.