Details
Contributor American Anti-Slavery Society.
Title [Family ties broken up] [graphic].
Publisher [Boston: s.n]
Publisher MA. Boston. 1837
Date [1837]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image 4 x 9 cm. (1.75 x 3.25 in)
Description A black man in tattered clothing is dragged away from his family by four white men acting on behalf of his purchaser. The man's wife and three small children have been purchased by another slaveholder, and the family will be separated.
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. 15.
Caption underneath the image reads: "The purchaser of the husband has sent to have him dragged away. As he does not wish for the 'balance' of the family, they have been taken by different purchasers."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Slaves -- Domestic life -- United States.
African American families.
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 15
Accession number 52047.D.2