Standing on the front steps of a school building, a schoolmaster prevents a free black woman and her two children from entering. A line of white children, however, enter the school without incident., Illustration in the American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1839 (New York: Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838), p. 13., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date
[1838]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1838 Ame Ant 16996.D.3 p 13, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2762
Set in a school room, the image shows a white schoolmaster, who appears to be teaching a group of young African American boys to read. Holding books, the boys are grouped around him., Cover page of the Slave's Friend (New York: Published by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836), vol. 1, no. 1 (1836)., Accompanied by the caption: "The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. -- Prov. xv.7.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date
[1836]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per S 63 54051.D v 1 n 1 cover page, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2884
Depicts an attack on a school established by Prudence Crandall in Caterbury, Connecticut that was destroyed by a white mob in September 1834. Image shows a mob of whites raiding, torching, and throwing cobblestones at a building whose sign reads "School for colored girls." At the left, two young girls exit the side door of the school., Illustration in the American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1839 (New York: Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838), p. 15., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date
[1838]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1838 Ame Ant 16996.D.3 p 15, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2763
