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How can it be done? [graphic].
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Contributor
American Anti-Slavery Society.
Title
How can it be done? [graphic].
Publisher
[New York s.n]
Date
[September 1836]
Physical Description
1 print: woodcut; image 6 x 8 cm. (2.25 x 3 in)
Description
Image depicts a mob of slaveholders who are raiding an abolitionist press. Members of the mob are dragging off a broken printing press.
Is part of
The anti-slavery record. New York: Published by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1835-1837.
Notes
Illustration in the Anti-Slavery Record (New York: Published by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1835-1837), vol. II, no. IX (September, 1836), whole no. 21, p. 1.
Curator's note: This is one of several antislavery graphics depicting the proslavery assault on the antislavery movement and their demand for the suppression of antislavery literature. This and several other illustrations link antislavery agitation to first amendment freedoms.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject
Abolitionists -- Crimes against.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Slaveholders.
Riots -- United States.
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 9 cover page
Accession number
60026.D
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Fels African Americana Image Project
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