Details
Creator Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 engraver.
Title [Head-frame and mouth-piece used to restrain slaves] [graphic].
Publisher [New York: s.n]
Publisher NY. New York. 1807
Date [1807]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; image 8 x 7 cm. (2.75 x 2.75 in)
Description From left to right, the top half of the illustration includes profile and frontal views of a male slave wearing a head-frame and mouth-piece, and a collar with long spokes and barbs that is referred to as a necklace in the text. In the upper-right quadrant of the illustration, the letter A denotes the location of the flat iron, a portion of the mouth-piece that is shown in greater detail in the bottom half of the image (to the left). A depiction of shackles and a left-hand view of the head-frame are also included.
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. 270-71.
Engraving attributed to Alexander Anderson.
Accompanied by the following descriptive text: "A front and profile view of an African's head, with the mouth-piece and necklace, the hooks around which are placed to prevent an escape when pursued in the woods, and to hinder them from laying down the head to procure rest. -- At A is a flat iron which goes into the mouth, and so effectually keeps down the tongue, that nothing can be swallowed, not even the saliva, a passage for which is made through holes in the mouth-plate. An enlarged view of the mouth-piece, which, when worn, becomes so heated, as frequently to bring off the skin along with it."
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 Themselved 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.
Punishment devices -- West Indies, British.
Physical restraints -- West Indies, British.
Shackles.
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 270-71
Accession number 2721.D