Details
Title [Aunt Judy's husband captured] [graphic].
Publisher [Boston: s.n]
Publisher MA. Boston. 1859
Date [1859]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; overall 10 x 15 cm. (3.75 x 5.75 in)
Description Illustration accompanies the narrative, "Aunt Judy's Story: A Story from Real Life," by Matilda G. Thompson. According to the story, Aunt Judy's husband, John, was a Kentucky slave with a brutal master. Desperate to leave, and eager to regain contact with Judy, who lived on a different plantation, John managed to escape. He made it to the plantation of Judy's mistress, and hid there for more than a week before he was betrayed and captured by slave-hunters.
Is part of Child's anti-slavery book. Boston: American Tract Society, 28 Cornhill, Boston, 1859.
Notes Illustration in The child's anti-slavery book (Boston: American Tract Society, 28 Cornhill, Boston, 1859), p 104.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Resistance.
Subject Fugitive slaves -- Capture & imprisonment -- Kentucky.
Genre Anti-slavery prints -- 1850-1860.
Wood engravings -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1859 Chil 65676.D p 104
Accession number 65676.D