The British Slave handbrake turn Duke of Gloucester

Duke of Gloucester

Alderman of the City of London

25 July 1799

'Sailors in Westminster Abbey'

Portrait of Fleetwood (died 1692) in armour

The British Slave handbrake turn Duke of Gloucester'The British Slave', 1861. The worker, a bricklayer, has been on strike, but, looking at his distressed wife and children, has realised his family needs him to return to work. There is no fire in the grate, nor food on the table. His working tools lie idle on the floor under a notice of the bricklayers' demands. A union official, stout, florid and well dressed, finds it easy to instruct the bricklayer to remain on strike, and not to give in, Want to