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Title The way a Virginian treated a New Englander [graphic].
Publisher [Boston: s.n]
Date [1837]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image 4 x 9cm. (1.75 x 3.25 in)
Description According to an accompanying text, the illustration depicts an incident that occurred in New Bedford, Massachusetts, c. 1818-23. The scene is set in a New Bedford "victualling cellar" kept by the black man at the left. In the company of a local constable (right), a visiting Virginian (center), has seized a pair of tongs and is assaulting the man. As the text explains, the Virginian, "who coveted his neighbor's body and soul," ordered the man to be arrested on a fictitious debt charge. The action was dismissed, and the Virginia was ultimately arrested for assaulting the black inn-keeper.
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. 27.
Caption underneath the image reads: "Many of the northern States have refused to grant to their own citizens a trial by jury, lest slaveholders should have too much trouble in stealing men. Massachusetts, and New Jersey are the only exceptions."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Free African Americans -- Capture & imprisonment -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford.
Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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 27
Accession number 52047.D.2