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Scipio hunted, "As men hunt a deer!" [graphic] / G.S ; M. Jackson.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2790
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Creator
Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903 engraver.
Contributor
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 ill.
Title
Scipio hunted, "As men hunt a deer!" [graphic] / G.S ; M. Jackson.
Publisher
[London: s.n]
Publisher
ENGLAND: London 1852
Date
[1852]
Physical Description
1 print: engraving; image 10 x 16 cm. (3.75 x 6.25 in)
Description
Equipped with dogs and rifles, a party of men surround Scipio, an escaped slave, who lies wounded on the ground. St. Clare intervenes, claiming Scipio as his prisoner in order to prevent the men from shooting him.
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. 176.
Caption underneath the image reads, "He fought the dogs right gallantly, and actually killed three of them with only his naked fists . . . . It was all I could do to keep the party from shooting him." --Page 200.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Fugitives.
Subject
Fugitive slaves -- Capture & imprisonment.
Fictitious characters.
Hunting dogs.
Genre
Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1852 Sto 72726.O p 176
Accession number
72726.O
In Collections
Fels African Americana Image Project
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