Details
Creator Garrett, Edmund Henry, 1853-1929 designer.
Title The runaway slaves, Anthony Burns and Thomas Sims [graphic].
Publisher [Hartford: s.n]
Publisher CONN. Hartford. 1897
Date [1897]
Physical Description 1 print: photomechanical print; image 10x 16 cm. (4 x 6.5 in)
Description Set in Boston, the image shows the consequences of the Fugitive Slave Law in the North. Despite public hostility to slave-hunting, Livermore explained that escaped slaves such as Burns and Sims were "returned at noon-day, military authority being called out to prevent the interference of the people, who were determined on their rescue."
Is part of Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905. Story of my life. Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1897.
Notes Illustration in Mary Ashton Rice Livermore's The Story of my Life, or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years (Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1897), p. 450.
Caption underneath image reads: "With pinioned arms and manacled feet they marched between files of soldiers to a steamer bound for South Carolina from whence they had fled. Vast throngs of men and women watched the procession, many weeping as they gazed."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Fugitives.
Subject Burns, Anthony -- Portraits.
Sims, Thomas -- Portraits.
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
Fugitive slaves -- Capture & imprisonment.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- 1890-1900.
Book illustrations -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1897 Liv 29518.O p 450
Accession number 29518.O