Details
Contributor Wevill, George, engraver.
Lovie, Henri, artist.
Title Williams, Sally, b. ca. 1796.
Alternate title [Sally Williams] / Wevill : Lovie.
Publisher [Cincinnati? s.n.].
Date [1858?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 10.2 x 7.2 cm.
Description Waist-length portrait of Williams, wearing a bonnet and eyeglasses.
Notes In Aunt Sally; or, the cross the way of freedom. / A narrative of the slave-life and purchase of the mother of Rev. Isaac Williams, of Detroit, Michigan (Cincinnati, 1858), frontispiece.
Sally Williams's son Isaac purchased her freedom. The publishers envisioned the narrative of her life, in which the portrait appears, as a text that would inspire readers "to labor for that oppressed and unhappy race which "Aunt Sally" represents, so, at length, this unfortunate people shall be slaves no longer, but shall find that, to them all, the Cross has been the Way of Freedom."--P.v.
"And this is the mother and this is the son, who, through such peril and labor, have escaped from bondage into freedom. The facts need no comments. They are eloquent enough of themselves. But when we remember that these are not isolated cases, but that every day there is this suffering and strife for liberty, with only now and then one fortunate enough to obtain it, they become "trumpet-tongued," and plead with us to rest not till all over the land liberty shall no longer be a name only, but the right and blessing of every creature."--P.213.
Another illustration picturing Williams appears in: Aunt Sally; or, the cross the way of freedom, plate opposite p. 214.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1850-1859.
Engravings -- 1850-1859.
Subject Williams, Sally, b. ca. 1796 -- Portraits.
African American women.
Afro-Americana.
Women.
Is part of Portraits of American Women
Has format TMP.objres.7399.jpg