Details
Title Wreck of the slave ship [graphic].
Publisher [London: s.n]
Publisher ENGLAND. London. 1852
Date [1852]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; image 9 x 15 cm. (3.5 x 5.75 in)
Description According to Hildreth's narrative, the plate shows a domestic slave ship that was caught in a storm while travelling down the Atlantic coast to Charleston. After the captain and crew fled in a jolly-boat, the slaves worked the pumps in the hopes of saving themselves. They were eventually rescued and brought to a jail in Norfolk, Virginia.
Is part of Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865. White slave. London: Ingram, Cooke, & Co., 227 Strand, MDCCCLII, 1852.
Notes Illustration in Richard Hildreth's The White Slave: or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (London: Ingram, Cooke, & Co., 227 Strand, MDCCCLII, 1852), p. 80.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images from the Slave Trade.
Subject Slavery -- United States -- Pictorial works -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- United States.
Slave ships -- United States.
Shipwrecks -- United States.
Genre Wood engravings -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1852 Hildr 70799.O p 80
Accession number 70799.O