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Title The abolition Garrison in danger & the narrow escape of the Scotch Ambassador. [graphic].
Publisher [New York?] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1835
Date [1835]
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 38 x 54 cm (14.5 x 21 in.)
Description Anti-abolition print celebrating the 1835 attack on William Lloyd Garrison in Boston by "gentleman of property and standing" preceding his scheduled speaking engagement before the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Depicts Garrison at the center of an angry mob of white men. He has a noose around his neck and his newspaper "The Liberator" in his pocket and yells, "Help Children of Africer - help brothers." Scottish abolitionist George Thompson, who was rumored to be the Society's speaker, flees the scene attired in a women's clothes. He states with a Scottish burr that he will not be a "Martyr in sie black cause." As the mob screams, "Down with the incendiary abolitionists," and calls for Garrison's lynching and arrest, Garrison is being pulled by the noose by several of the rioters and steps upon editions of the "Evening Post" and "Human Rights," serials sympathetic to the abolitionist cause.
Is referenced by Weitenkampf, p. 38
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Text on recto: Boston Oct. 21st, 1835.
Purchase 1958.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Thompson, George, 1804-1878 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- Newspapers.
Cross dressing -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Crowds -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Garrison Mob, Boston, Mass., 1835.
Riots -- Massachusetts. -- Boston.
Genre Anti-abolition prints -- 1830-1840.
Lithographs -- hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Political cartoons -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1835-10W [6259.F]
Accession number 6259.F