Details
Creator Baker & Smith engraver.
Contributor Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874 ill.
Title [The freeman's defense] [graphic].
Publisher [Boston: s.n]
Publisher MA: Boston 1853
Date [1853]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 8 x 14 cm. (3.25 x 5.25 in)
Description Engraving depicts an episode from chapter 17. Atop a rocky embankment, George and Phineas defend themselves, Eliza and Harry, and Jim Selden and his aged mother from an approaching group that includes Marks, Uncle Tom, and two constables.
Is part of Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1986, Oheim Tom's Hütte. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1853.
Notes Illustration in the first German translation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oheim Tom's Hütte) printed in America (Boston: John P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1853), p. 79.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Fugitives.
Subject Fugitive slaves -- Capture & imprisonment.
Fictitious characters.
Genre Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1853 Stow 71311.O p 79
Accession number 71311.O