Details
Creator Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 engraver.
Title The husband and wife, after being sold to different purchasers, violently separated, probably never to see each other more [graphic].
Publisher [New York: s.n]
Publisher NY. New York. 1807
Date [1807]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; image 6 x 7 cm. (2.5 x 2.75 in)
Description Image depicts a slaveowner who moves to whip three partially clothed slave figures, a husband, a wife, and their small child. The husband and wife cling to each other as their child stands to the right. In the background, another slaveowner raises his whip toward four slaves who march in a line in front of him.
Is part of Branagan, Thomas, 1774-1843. Penitential tyrant. New York: Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, 1807.
Notes Illustration in Thomas Branagan's Penitential Tyrant (New York: Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, 1807), p. 267.
Engraving attributed to Alexander Anderson.
Images in this work derived from oral testimony given before the British Parliament's Select Committee Appointed to Take the Examination of Witnesses Respecting the African Slave Trade originally published as An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered Before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the Years 1790 and 1791; on the part of the petitioners for the abolition of the slave-trade (London: printed by James Phillips, 1791). Images also issued in a number of other printed works including Remarks on the Methods of Procuring Slaves with a Short Account of Their Treatment in the West-Indies (London: printed by and for Darton and Harvey, no. 66 Gracechurch Street, MDCCXCIII [1793]); Der Neue Hoch Deutsche Americanische Calender auf das jahr 1797 (Baltimore: Samuel Saur, 1796); Injured Humanity: Being a Representation of What the Unhappy Children of Africa Endure from Those Who Call Themselves Christians... (New York: printed and sold by Samuel Wood, no. 362 Pearl Street, (between 1805 and 1808); and The Mirror of Misery, or, Tyranny Exposed (New York: printed and sold by Samuel Wood, 1807) and later editions issued in 1811 and 1814.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Slavery -- West Indies, British -- Pictorial works -- 18th century.
Slave trade -- West Indies, British.
Genre Anti-slavery prints -- 1800-1810.
Engravings -- 1800-1810.
Book illustrations -- 1800-1810.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1807 Bra 2721.D. p 267
Accession number 2721.D