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Another method of fixing the poor victims on a ladder to be flogged, which is also occasionally laid flat on the ground for severer punishment. [graphic].
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Creator
Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 engraver.
Title
Another method of fixing the poor victims on a ladder to be flogged, which is also occasionally laid flat on the ground for severer punishment. [graphic].
Publisher
[New York: s.n]
Publisher
NY. New York. 1807
Date
[1807]
Physical Description
1 print: wood engraving; image 7 x 7 cm. (2.5 x 2.5 in)
Description
A slaveowner stands to the right and watches as a partially clothed male slave flogs the backside of a naked male slave who leans on a ladder that is propped against a tree.
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. 273.
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 o 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 Pear 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
Slaves -- Punishment & torture -- West Indies, British.
Slaveholders -- West Indies, British.
Whipping.
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 273
Accession number
2721.D
In Collections
Fels African Americana Image Project
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