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Perilous escape of Eliza and child. [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A129415
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Creator
Strong, Thomas W., lithographer.
Contributor
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Uncle Tom's cabin.
Title
Perilous escape of Eliza and child. [graphic].
Publisher
New York : T.W. Strong litho., 98 Nassau St
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1853
Date
[ca. 1853]
Physical Description
1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 41 x 31 cm (16 x 12 in.)
Description
Print of a scene from Stowe's popular, anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," originally published in 1851. Depicts the character Eliza, an African American woman freedom seeker, escaping from Kentucky to Ohio across the icy Ohio River. Eliza, depicted barefoot and with a light skin tone, clutches her son Harry to her breast and straddles two blocks of ice as she looks behind her at the irate white man enslaver on the shore near the tavern from which she has fled.
Is part of
Scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin ; no. 1.
Notes
Title from item.
Purchase 1997.
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.
Biographical / historical note
Stong was a prolific New York mid 19th-century lithographer, wood engraver, and publisher who mainly published stock prints.
Subject
Eliza (Fictitious character)
Abolition movement -- United States.
African American boys.
African American mothers.
African American women.
African Americans.
African Americans in literature.
Escapes -- Ohio.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Capture & imprisonment.
Ice floes -- Ohio.
Racially mixed people -- United States.
Slavery -- United States.
Enslaved persons -- United States.
Enslaved boys -- United States.
Enslaved women -- United States.
Enslavers -- United States.
Freedom seekers.
Freedom seekers -- United States -- Capture & imprisonment.
Genre
Anti-slavery prints -- 1850-1860.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Fictional Characters [P.9524.2]
Accession number
P.9524.2
In Collections
African American History Prints and Watercolors and Drawings
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