| Contributor |
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842. |
|
American Anti-Slavery Society, distributor. |
| Title |
Views of slavery : [graphic] / Does the slaveholder admit the slave to be a human being? If so we would ask his interpretation
of the following sentiment "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do you even so to them."
|
| Publisher |
[New York] : [publisher not identified] |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1836 |
| Date |
[1836] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 37 x 28 cm (14.5 x 11 in.) |
| Description |
Abolitionist print containing six scenes depicting the inhumanity of slavery. Scenes include enslaved African American children
crying while their mothers work and a white man enslaver whips an enslaved man in a sugar plantation field; the punishment
of enslaved people by flogging, whipping, and binding by white men overseers in a shack; an auction of enslaved people; a
free African American woman with a child watching the destruction of her free papers as she is kidnapped from the street;
an anguished enslaved mother being separated from her children by a white man involved in the slave trade; and the shipping
of enslaved people to New Orleans from a Baltimore dock. Also contains an excerpt about the rights of human beings from William
Ellery Channing's abolitionist text, "On Slavery," below the image.
|
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Advertised in the New York American Anti-Slavery Society newspaper, Emancipator (March 1836), p.3. |
|
Purchase 2003. |
|
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.
|
|
Lib. Company. Annual report, 2003, p. 45-46. |
| Subject |
Antislavery movements -- United States. |
|
Free African Americans -- Capture & imprisonment -- United States. |
|
Free African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States. |
|
Plantation overseers -- United States. |
|
Slave trade -- United States. |
|
Enslaved persons -- Punishment & torture -- United States. |
|
Sugar plantations -- Southern States. |
|
Whipping -- United States. |
|
Enslaved children -- United States. |
|
Enslaved labor -- United States. |
|
Enslaved men -- United States. |
|
Enslaved women -- United States. |
|
Enslavers -- United States. |
|
Free children -- United States. |
|
Free women -- United States. |
|
Traders -- United States. |
| Genre |
Anti-slavery prints -- 1830-1840. |
|
Lithographs -- 1830-1840. |
|
Political cartoons -- 1830-1840. |
| Printer |
American Anti-Slavery Society, distributor. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - 1836 Vie [P.2003.10] |
| Accession number |
P.2003.10 |
