Details
Contributor American Anti-Slavery Society.
Title History of the slave, James [graphic].
Publisher [New York: s.n]
Publisher NY. New York. 1836
Date [February 1836]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image 6 x 8 cm. (2.25 x 3 in)
Description Image is set in the Philadelphia-area household of a family of freed and escaped slaves. Having located the family, the slaves' owner, shown in the center, has come with two assistants to reclaim a slave named James, the man who is being forced out of the door in the background right. James's mother, an elderly freed slave named Harriet, battles with her former owner in the center of the scene. She bears the breast she once used to nurse him and begs for mercy. Harriett's husband and James's wife appear to the left, while James and Harriett's newborn baby sleeps in a cradle to the right.
Is part of Anti-slavery record. New York: Published by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1835-1837.
Notes Caption title vignette in the Anti-Slavery Record (New York: Published by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1835-1837), vol. II, no. II (February, 1836), whole no. 14, p 1.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Fugitive slaves -- Capture & imprisonment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Slaveholders.
Genre Woodcuts -- 1830-1840.
Periodical illustrations -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Per A 245 60026.D v 2 n 2 cover page
Accession number 60026.D