Details
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