Details
Creator Reason, Patrick Henry, 1816-1898 engraver.
Title Truth shall make you free [graphic] / Engraved by P. Reason.
Publisher [Boston: s.n]
Publisher MA. Boston. 1839
Date [1839]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 10 x 9 cm. (3.75 x 3.5 in)
Description Image features a large allegorical figure representing Liberty, who stands in the center of the scene. Her raised left hand holds a book. In front of her and to the left, a male slave has broken free from his shackles and chains. Next to him, a black woman prays, and a black mother holds her infant child. At the right, a white girl teaches a group of black children to read the alphabet. An American flag flies in the background.
Is part of Liberty bell. Boston: For the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1839.
Notes Frontispiece for the Liberty Bell (Boston: For the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1839).
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.
Liberty.
African American engravers.
Genre Allegorical prints -- 1830-1840.
Engravings -- 1830-1840.
Book illustrations -- 1830-1840.
Frontispieces -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1839 Lib 66087.D frontispiece
Accession number 66087.D