04233ckm a2200433 a 4500 000149113 20230712142901.0 kjobo| 030409s1807 nyunnn| ||||||| kneng d Fels-5 3 ppl PPL gihc Edwin, David, 1776-1841 engraver. 55546 [Practical slavery and professional liberty] [graphic] / Barralet del. ; Edwin sc. [New York: s.n., 1807] 1 print: stipple engraving; overall 14 x 8 cm. (5.5 x 3.25 in) Frontispiece for Thomas Branagan's Penitential Tyrant (New York: Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, 1807). Accompanied by the following description of the frontispiece: "It is intended as a contrast between Practical Slavery and Professional Liberty, and suggests to the citizens of the American States the following distich: 'Sons of Columbia, hear this truth in time, He who allows oppression shares the crime.' The temple of Liberty, with the motto of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which would as well become her sister states, is displayed; the Goddess, in a melancholy attitude, is seated under the Pillar of our Independence, bearing in her hand the Sword of Justice surmounted by the Cap of Liberty, while one foot rests on the Cornucopiae, and the Ensigns of America appear at her side. She is looking majestically sad on the African Slaves, landed on the shores of America, who are brought into view, in order to demonstrate the hypocrisy and villainy of professing to be votaries of liberty, while, at the same time, we encourage, or countenance, the most ignoble slavery." Image shows a reformed slave trader who reaches toward a female allegorical figure representing liberty, virtue, and independence, who is seated on a staircase above him. A harbor is visible in the background, as are four slaves (three adults and one child), two of whom appear to be bound. Images in this work derived from oral testimony given before the British Parliament's Select Committee Appointed to Take the Examination of Witnesses Respecting the African Slave Trade originally published as An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered Before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the Years 1790, and 1791; on the Part of the Petitioners for the abolition of the Slave-Trade (London: printed by James Phillips, 1791). Images also issued in a number of other printed works including Remarks on the Methods of Procuring Slaves with a Short Account of Their Treatment in the West-Indies (London: printed by and for Darton and Harvey, no. 66 Gracechurch Street, MDCCXCIII [1793]): Sclaven-Handel (Philadelphia: Gedruckt fur Tobias Hirte, bey Samuel Saur, 1794); Der Neue Hoch Deutsche Americanische Calender aur das Jahr 1797 (Baltimore: Samuel Saur, 1796); Injured Humanity: Being a Representation of What the Unhappy Children of Africa Endure From Those Who Call Themselves Christians... (New York: printed and sold by Samuel Wood, no. 362, Pearl Street, between 1805 and 1808); and The Mirror of Misery, or, Tyranny Exposed (New York: printed and sold by Samuel Wood, 1807) and later editions issued in 1811 and 1814. Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery. Slaves United States. lctgm 83770 Liberty. lctgm 75232 Frontispieces 1800-1810. gmgpc Allegorical prints 1800-1810. gmgpc Stipple engravings 1800-1810. gmgpc Anti-slavery prints 1800-1810. local SP3 African American History Barralet, John James, ca. 1747-1815 artist. 56923 Branagan, Thomas, 1774-1843. Penitential tyrant. New York: Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, 1807. Imprint NY. New York. 1807. Library Company of Philadelphia Rare Am 1807 Bra 2721.D frontispiece Digital image https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2709 2721.D R Am 1807 Bra 2721.D frontispiece 2721.D R Am 1807 Bra 2721.D frontispiece (CPomAG)80005592 142027 142027 000149113 CONV 00 20051208 1945 000149113 BATCH-UPD 00 20051211 2154 000149113 20060120 1813 000149113 20060201 1536 000149113 20071018 1953 000149113 EDITH 40 20090209 1047 000149113 ANN 40 20171109 1126 ppl NY. New York. 1807. Imprint