Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women’s rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
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[United States]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.33b]
