Details
Creator Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 engraver.
Title When slaves are purchased by the planters; they are generally marked on the breast with a red hot iron. [graphic].
Publisher [New York: s.n]
Publisher NY. New York. 1807
Date [1807]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image 6 x 7 cm. (2.5 x 2.75 in)
Description A slaveowner uses a hot iron to brand a male slave's breast. Two other male slaves wait to be branded as well. A ship is visible in the background, possibly suggesting that the three had been purchased immediately beforehand.
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. 274.
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 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 (Balitmore: 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.
Slaves -- Punishment & torture -- West Indies, British.
Branding (Punishment) -- West Indies, British.
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 274
Accession number 2721.D