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Kidnapping [graphic] / Alex Rider del. ; Goodman & Piggot sc.
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Creator
Goodman & Piggot engraver.
Contributor
Rider, Alexander, artist.
Title
Kidnapping [graphic] / Alex Rider del. ; Goodman & Piggot sc.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Designed and published by J. Torrey Jun
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1817
Date
1817
Physical Description
1 print: engraving; image 9 x 15 cm. (3.75 x 5.75 in)
Description
Engraving relates to an incident recounted by Torrey. In the middle of the night, five men forced their way into the room of a free black woman, who was pregnant and recently widowed. They dragged her out of the bed in which she was sleeping with her child, tied a noose around her neck, and then carried mother and child to a Maryland tavern, where they were bought by a slave-dealer and brought to Washington.
Is part of
Torrey, Jesse, fl. 1787-1834. Portraiture of domestic slavery. Philadelphia: Published by the author. John Bioren, printer, 1817.
Notes
Plate in Jesse Torrey's A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States (Philadelphia: Published by the author. John Bioren, printer, 1817), p. 48.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images from the Slave Trade.
Subject
Slave trade -- United States.
Kidnappings -- United States.
Free African Americans -- Capture & imprisonment.
Genre
Engravings -- 1810-1820.
Book illustrations -- 1810-1820.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1817 Tor 4875.O p 48
Accession number
4875.O
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