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Slave emancipation; or, John Bull gulled out of twenty millions. [graphic].
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Title
Slave emancipation; or, John Bull gulled out of twenty millions. [graphic].
Publisher
[England] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher
ENG. 1833
Date
[ca. 1833?]
Physical Description
1 print : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 25 x 36 cm (9.5 x 14 in.)
Description
Anti-abolitionist satire of the indemnification expenses to be paid as a result of the abolition of slavery in the British colonies in 1833. Depicts William Wilberforce, a prominent British abolitionist, leading a tour group comprised of a white man enslaver, a white man Whig, and "John Bull" through the dwellings of enslaved people. As the tour passes, a group of happy and celebrating Black men, attired in yellow, blue, or green pants and shoes and portrayed in racist caricature, dance and smoke from pipes. One man sits with his back to the viewer and smokes a pipe beside a jug labeled, "Rum." Wilberforce preaches about the necessary expense of emancipation and the wretched condition of the enslaved to which Bull laments about "our poor innocent factory children, for whom you haven't one small spark of pity." The white men comment about the personal effect of emancipation on them.
Notes
Title from item.
Date and place of publication inferred from content.
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1978, p. 55.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Abolitionists -- Great Britain.
Dance -- West Indies.
Pipes (Smoking)
Racism in popular culture.
Slaveholders -- West Indies.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- West Indies.
John Bull (Symbolic character) -- 1830-1840.
Enslaved men -- West Indies.
Enslavers -- West Indies.
Free men -- West Indies.
Genre
Anti-abolition prints -- Great Britain.
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Political cartoons -- 1830-1840.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1833 - Sla [8392.F]
Accession number
8392.F
In Collections
Political Cartoons Collection
African American History Political Cartoons
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