Details
Creator Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 engraver.
Title [Log-yokes used by the Mandingoes to restrain slaves.] [graphic].
Publisher [New York: s.n]
Publisher NY. New York. 1807
Date [1807]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image 7 x 6 cm. (2.75 x 2.5 in)
Description Top half of the image shows two male slaves who are joined together by a log-yoke that fits around their necks and rests on their shoulders. Bottom half shows a slave in a log-yoke that takes the form of an inverted V and hangs from his neck by a piece of rope.
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. 268.
Engraving attributed to Alexander Anderson.
Accompanied by the following text: "The manner of yoking the slaves by the Mandingoes, or African slave merchants, who usually march annually in eight or ten parties, from the river Gambia to Bambarra; each party having from one hundred to one hundred and fifty slaves. The Log-Yokes are made of the roots of trees, so heavy as to make it extremely difficult for the persons who wear them to walk, much more to escape or run away. Where the roads lie through woods, the captives are made to travel several hundred miles with logs hung from their necks, as described in the plates."
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]); Sclaven-Handel (Philadelphia: Gedruckt fur Tobias Hirte, bey Samuel Saur, 1794); 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 edtions issued in 1811 and 1814.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Slave trade -- Africa, West -- Pictorial works -- 18th century.
Slaves -- Punishment & torture -- Africa, West.
Punishment devices -- Africa, West.
Physical restraints -- Africa, West.
Genre Anti-slavery prints -- 1800-1810.
Woodcuts -- 1800-1810.
Book illustrations -- 1800-1810.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1807 Bra 2721.D p 268
Accession number 2721.D