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Creator Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist.
Title 'Conquering prejudice,' or 'fulfilling a constitutional duty with alacrity.' [graphic] / P. Kramer.
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1851
Date [ca. 1851]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 33 x45 cm (12.75 x 17.25 in.)
Description Antislavery print depicting the pursuit of a freedom seeker in accordance with the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Shows a barefooted, enslaved African American woman, portrayed with exaggerated features, and attired in a head kerchief and a short-sleeved dress. She runs holding her child and screams for help, "My God! My child! Will no one help! Is there no mercy!" Chasing her are Daniel Webster admiring himself for performing a "disagreeable duty," a marshal holding a gun and handcuffs and exclaiming a sense of relief over Webster's interpretation of the Constitution, and two dogs. In the background is a church and courthouse.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Lib. Company. Annual Report, 1978, p. 54-5.
Purchase 1978.
RVCDC
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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Kramer was a German born painter and lithographer who worked with the Rosenthals, a prominent Philadelphia family of lithographers from 1850 and through the early 1850s.
Subject Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
African American infants -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Chasing.
Dogs.
Fugitive slaves -- Capture & imprisonment -- United States.
Police -- United States.
Enslaved women -- United States.
Enslaved babies -- United States.
Freedom seekers -- United States.
Freedom seekers -- Capture & imprisonment -- United States.
Mercenaries -- United States.
Enslaved women -- Satire.
Genre Political cartoons -- 1850-1860.
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Anti-slavery prints -- United States -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1851- Con [8433.F]
Accession number 8433.F