A representation of Governor Wall ordering Serjeant B. Armstrong, without a trial, to be tied to a gun, at Coree, in Africa, and inhumanly flogged by Black slaves, who were changed every twenty-five lashes

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Title: A representation of Governor Wall ordering Serjeant B. Armstrong, without a trial, to be tied to a gun, at Coree, in Africa, and inhumanly flogged by Black slaves, who were changed every twenty-five lashes
Contributor: Davenport, Joshua, publisher.
Published / Created: [1802]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Davenport, 6, George's Court, St. John's Gate, London
Abstract: An illustrated handbill describing the execution of Joseph Wall, former Governor of Goree, for unlawful execution in 1782 of Serjeant B. Armstrong. The large woodcut illustration depicts the punishment devised by Wall and shows the victim being whipped by presumably enslaved "black men" described in detail in the verses below
Description: Caption title.
Printed in two columns.
Partially in verse; the short description of Wall's execution is followed by a six stanza poem, with the heading "A copy of verses on the melancholy occasion."
Publisher's advertisement following imprint: - Where may be had, price 6d. the Trial of Governor Wall, including a biographical account of his life, and the whole particulars of his execution.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Maggs Bros.; March 2024.
Extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 31 x 19 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English