Details
Title [The morning dream] [graphic].
Publisher [Boston: s.n]
Publisher MA. Boston. 1837
Date [1837]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; overall 17 x 11 cm. (6.5 x 4.25 in)
Description Frontispiece accompanies Cowper's poem "The Morning Dream," which appears on the opposite page. The engraving features an allegorical figure representing Liberty/Britannia, who sailed westward to America "to make freemen of slaves." Shedding light "like the sun," this divine and beautiful figure "sung of the slave's broken chain, wherever her glory appeared." In accordance with the verse, two chained slaves kneel before her, praying for freedom. At the left, a slave-owner drops his whip. ("In his hand, as a sign of his sway, / A scourge hung with lashes he bore, / And stood looking out for his prey, From Africa's sorrowful shore. / But soon as approaching the land, / That angel-like woman he view'd, / The scourge he let fall from his hand, / With the blood of his subjects imbru'd.")
Is part of Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892. Poems written during the progress of the abolition question in the United States. Boston: Published by Isaac Knapp, No. 25, Cornhill, 1837.
Notes Frontispiece for John Greenleaf Whittier's Poems Written during the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, between the Years 1830 and 1838 (Boston: Published by Isaac Knapp, No. 25, Cornhill, 1837).
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States
Liberty.
Genre Allegorial prints -- 1830-1840.
Engravings -- 1830-1840.
Book illustrations -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1837 Whi 51405.D frontispiece
Accession number 51405.D