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In 'Go West Young Man' Piper combines text with images relating to the slave trade and the abolitionist movement in Britain, stills from Hollywood films, family snapshots, photographs of lynching and black male bodybuilders.

He uses these to explore the historical, social and cultural depiction of the black male body. In each panel, the brutality of the ‘Middle Passage’, of slavery (the crossing of millions of African slaves across the Atlantic from Africa to the ‘New World’ colonies in slave ships from the 15th to the 18th centuries) is related to Piper’s experiences of racism, violence and the justice system.