Details
Contributor American Anti-Slavery Society.
Title Tearing up free papers [graphic].
Publisher [Boston: s.n]
Date [1837]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image 4 x 8 cm. (1.5 x 3.25 in)
Description A man restrains a free Southern black woman as another man destroys the papers that attest to her freedom. The woman's small child stands beside her. In the background, at least two figures are visible behind bars.
Is part of American anti-slavery almanac, for 1838 Boston: Published by D.K. Hitchcock, 1837.
Notes Illustration in the American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1838 (Boston: Published by D.K. Hitchcock, 1837), p. 7.
Caption underneath the image reads: "In the Southern States, every colored person is presumed to be a slave, till proved to be free; and they are often robbed of the proof."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Legal documents -- Destruction and reconstruction.
Genre Woodcuts -- 1830-1840.
Book illustrations -- 1830-1840.
Anti-slavery prints -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1837 Ame Ant 52047.D.2 p 7
Accession number 52047.D.2