Details
Contributor American Anti-Slavery Society.
Title The poor mother [graphic].
Publisher [New York: s.n]
Publisher NY. New York. 1836
Date [1836]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image 5 x 6 cm. (1.75 x 2.25 in)
Description Image portrays a distraught mother kneeling on a rock on the coast of Africa. She watches and gestures in vain as her children are ferried off in a boat by slavetraders.
Is part of Slave's Friend. New York: Published by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836.
Notes Illustration in the Slave's Friend (New York: Published by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836), vol. 1, no. 3 (1836), p 3.
Image accompanied by a plea in verse-form, which begins as follows: "HELP! oh help! thou God of Christians / Save a mother from despair; / Cruel white-men steal my children, / God of Christians! hear my prayer."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Slave trade -- Africa, West -- 19th century -- Pictorial works.
Slaves -- Capture & imprisonment -- Africa, West.
Families -- Africa, West.
Genre Anti-slavery prints -- 1830-1840.
Woodcuts -- 1830-1840.
Periodical illustrations -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Per S 63 54051.D v 1 n 3 p 3
Accession number 54051.D