Details
Title The way they "catch" men in Pennsylvania [graphic].
Publisher [Boston: s.n]
Date [1837]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image 4 x 9cm. (1.75 x 3.25 in)
Description Two armed, uniformed authorities shoot at two escaped slaves in Cambria county, Pennsylvania.
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. 25.
Caption underneath the image reads: "These men having FELT the horrors of slavery, fled to Cambria county, Pa., in April, 1837. Being pursued, one of them said he would die before he would be taken. They were shot and wounded, and then were taken with great difficulty."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Fugitive slaves -- Capture & imprisonment -- Pennsylvania.
Fugitive slaves -- Punishment & torture.
Genre Woodcuts -- 1830-1840.
Book illustrations -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1837 Ame Ant 52047.D.2 p 25
Accession number 52047.D.2