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[The morning dream]
[graphic].
[Boston:
s.n.,
1837]
1 print:
engraving;
overall 17 x 11 cm. (6.5 x 4.25 in)
Frontispiece for John Greenleaf Whittier's Poems Written during the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, between the Years 1830 and 1838 (Boston: Published by Isaac Knapp, No. 25, Cornhill, 1837).
Frontispiece accompanies Cowper's poem "The Morning Dream," which appears on the opposite page. The engraving features an allegorical figure representing Liberty/Britannia, who sailed westward to America "to make freemen of slaves." Shedding light "like the sun," this divine and beautiful figure "sung of the slave's broken chain, wherever her glory appeared." In accordance with the verse, two chained slaves kneel before her, praying for freedom. At the left, a slave-owner drops his whip. ("In his hand, as a sign of his sway, / A scourge hung with lashes he bore, / And stood looking out for his prey, From Africa's sorrowful shore. / But soon as approaching the land, / That angel-like woman he view'd, / The scourge he let fall from his hand, / With the blood of his subjects imbru'd.")
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Slaves
Emancipation
United States
80163
Liberty.
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Allegorial prints
1830-1840.
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Engravings
1830-1840.
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Book illustrations
1830-1840.
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African American History
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Poems written during the progress of the abolition question in the United States.
Boston: Published by Isaac Knapp, No. 25, Cornhill, 1837.
Imprint
MA. Boston.
1837.
Library Company of Philadelphia
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