Details
Title [Thomas Cooper] [graphic].
Publisher [Boston: s.n]
Publisher MA. Boston. 1837
Date [1837]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image 4 x 9cm. (1.75 x 3.25 in)
Description Image depicts Thomas Cooper, a Maryland slave who escaped to Philadelphia, where he settled, found work, married, and raised a family. In this scene, Cooper's former owner, having learned of his whereabouts, has seized and handcuffed him, and is taking him back to Maryland. His wife and children beg for his release in vain. According to the accompanying text, Cooper's Philadelphia employers had offered to pay the slaveowner a large sum in return for his release, but their offer was refused.
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. 19.
Caption underneath the image reads: "Consider the desolation which would be brought upon YOUR family, if the head of it should be taken away. The slaves suffer, in such cases, FAR MORE than we, for they have few pleasures except those they derive from their companions in wo [sic]."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Cooper, Thomas -- Portraits.
Fugitive slaves -- Capture & imprisonment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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 19
Accession number 52047.D.2