| Creator |
Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 engraver. |
| Title |
[Slave at work with head-frame] [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 |
Three-quarter, right profile view of a male slave in a plantation setting. Image shows him at work with a hoe, and draws attention
to the accoutrements he is forced to wear: the ankle spurs, the head-frame and mouth-piece, and the heavy weight that is suspended
from a chain around his waist. A second slave works in the distant background.
|
| 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. 269. |
|
Engraving attributed to Alexander Anderson. |
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Accompanied by the following text: "A representation of a slave at work cruelly accoutred, with a Head-frame and Mouth-piece
to prevent his eating -- with Boots and Spurs round his legs, and half a hundred weight chained to his body to prevent his
absconding."
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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 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 suf 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.
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Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- West Indies, British -- Pictorial works -- 18th century. |
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Slaves -- Punishment & torture -- West Indies, British. |
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Punishment devices -- West Indies, British. |
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Physical restraints -- West Indies, British. |
| Genre |
Anti-slavery prints -- 1800-1810. |
|
Wood engravings -- 1800-1810. |
|
Book illustrations -- 1800-1810. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1807 Bra 2721.D p 269 |
| Accession number |
2721.D |
