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Contributor Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Title Persecuted virtue [graphic] / G.S.
Publisher [London: s.n]
Publisher ENGLAND: London 1852
Date [1852]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 13 x 9 cm. (4.75 x 3.75 in)
Description Illustration accompanies a recollection made by George, a fugitive slave, in Chapter XI, "In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind." In conversation with Mr. Wilson, George recalled how his sister was whipped by her owner for no other reason that wanting a decent Christian life. Correspondingly, the image captures the moment leading up to George's sister's whipping. Stripped to the waist, she waits on her knees as shabby looking white man ties her wrists to a post. In the center of the scene, a black overseer stands with a whip in his hand, talking with the master. Chains and shackles hang from the rear wall of the barn interior.
Is part of Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1986. Uncle Tom's cabin. London: John Cassell, Ludgate Hill, 1852.
Notes Illustration in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (London: John Cassell, Ludgate Hill, 1852), p. 112.
Caption underneath the image reads, "She was whipped, sir, for wanting to live a decent Christian life, such as your laws give no slave girl a right to live." --Page 95.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Punishment Scenes.
Subject Slaves -- Punishment & torture.
Whipping.
Fictitious characters.
Genre Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1852 Sto 72726.O p 112
Accession number 72726.O