| Title |
Southern ideas of liberty. New method of assorting the mail, as practised by southern slave-holders, or attack on the post
office, Charleston, S.C. [graphic].
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| Publisher |
[Boston?] : [publisher not identified] |
| Publisher |
MASS. Boston. 1835 |
| Date |
[ca. 1835] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : 2 lithographs on 1 sheet ; sheet 36 x 27 cm (14.25 x 10.5 in.) |
| Description |
Print portraying the violent suppression of Southern abolitionism. Depicts a riotous mob around a gallows from which a white
man hangs. It is overseen by Judge Lynch, depicted with donkey's ears and holding a whip while stepping on the Constitution.
He is seated upon bales of cotton, sugar, and tobacco and sentences a white man abolitionist to be hanged by the neck. The
abolitionist is grabbed and drug to the gallows by two white men.
|
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Print portraying a raid of anti-abolitionists on the Charleston Post Office in July 1835. Depicts white men removing and then
pilfering mail-bags from the ransacked post-office and throwing to the ground abolitionist newspapers including "The Liberator,"
"Atlas," and "Commercial Gazette" while a riotous mob burns the papers. Posted on the Post Office is a broadside titled "$20,000
Reward for Tappan" referring to the bounty placed by the city of New Orleans upon Arthur Tappan, founder and president of
the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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| Is referenced by |
Weitenkampf, p. 38 |
|
Reilly, 1835-2 |
|
Reilly, 1835-3 |
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Advertised in 1836 editions of the abolitionist newspapers The Liberator, published in Boston, and Emancipator, published
in New York.
|
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Text printed on recto: Sentence passed upon one for supporting that clause of our Declaration viz. All men are born free &equal.
“Strip him to the skin! give him a coat of Tar & Feathers! Hang him by the neck, between the Heavens and the Earth!!! as a
beacon to warn the Northern Fanatics of their danger!!!!”
|
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Purchase 1981. |
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Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
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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 |
Abolitionists -- Southern States. |
|
Antislavery movements -- Southern States. |
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- Newspapers. |
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Book burning -- Southern States. |
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Crowds -- Southern States. |
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Gallows -- Southern States. |
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Hangings (Executions) -- Southern States. |
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Post offices -- South Carolina -- Charleston. |
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Riots -- United States -- Southern States. |
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Slaveholders -- Southern States. |
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Enslavers -- Southern States. |
| Genre |
Anti-slavery prints -- United States. |
|
Lithographs -- 1830-1840. |
|
Political cartoons -- 1830-1840. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1835-2 & 3 [P.8658] |
| Accession number |
P.8658 |
