Details
Title [The rebel pirate's fatal prize] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: s.n]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date [1862]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; image 9 x 15 cm. (3.5 x 6 in)
Description Image depicts a scene on board the schooner S.J. Waring. The ship's steward William Tillman [i.e., Billy Tilghman], "the brave and daring negro," armed with a hatchet, defends himself and his wife from three men identified as the "Pirate Prize Master, Lieutenant, and Mate," who stand in his doorway. Having learned of their secret plot to sell him and his wife into slavery, Tillman murders them.
Is part of Rebel pirate's fatal prize. Philadelphia: Reichner & Co., 1862.
Notes Vignette on the broadside advertisement for The Rebel Pirate's Fatal Prize (Philadelphia: Reichner & Co., 1862).
Accompanied by the caption: "Back sirs! She is my wife, she is no slave! Seize her at your peril."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Resistance.
Subject Tilghman, Billy -- Portraits.
S.J. Waring (Schooner)
Free African Americans -- Capture & imprisonment.
Slave trade -- United States.
Homicides.
Genre Wood engravings -- 1860-1870.
Broadsides -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1862 Und (2) 5786.F 46e broadside vignette
Accession number 5786.F