Details
Contributor American Anti-Slavery Society.
Title The desperation of a mother [graphic].
Publisher [New York: s.n]
Publisher NY. New York. 1835
Date [September 1835]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut image 6 x 8 cm. (2.25 x 3 in)
Description With an axe in one hand and a candle in the other, a slave woman kneels in the cramped attic space where her two young sons sleep on the floor. Hovering above the boys, she shines her light upon them before killing them. According to an accompanying text, she then kills herself.
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. I, no. 9, p. 97.
Small caption underneath the image reads: "Why do you narrate the extraordinary cases of cruelty? These stories will not convert the cruel, and the wound the feelings of masters who are not son." REPLY. Cruelty is the fruit of the system.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject African American criminals.
African American women.
Homicides.
Suicides.
Genre Anti-slavery prints -- 1830-1840.
Woodcuts -- 1830-1840.
Periodical illustrations -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Per A 245 16998.D v 1 n 9 cover page
Accession number 16998.D