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Title: ASSU Illustration 3569
Description: Block numbered in two places: 3569, also 623 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of men bowing to a standing man who wears a long tunic and a headdress; many of the men hold crooks; possibly a Biblical scene.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 20

Title: [Getaufte Neger]
Description: Episode follows the baptism of several blacks under the authority of the Moravian Church. Three men, presumably the pastor and two deacons, stand to the far right. The baptismal font, a large barrel, rests on the floor in front of them. According to the caption, the image depicts newly baptized blacks who, after praying and prostrating themselves, are helped to their feet and kissed by other members of the community. Two groups of parishoners -- one consisting entirely of men, the other of women -- watch from the left., Fold-out plate at the back of David Cranz's Kurze, zuverlässige Nachricht von der, unter dem Namen der Böhmisch-Mährischen Brüder bekanten Kirche Unitas Fratrum (Halle: s.n., 1757), plate NVII., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Date: [1757]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1757 Cran 72764.O plate NVII, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2675

Title: Exorcismus der täuflinge unter den Negern
Description: Depiction of an exorcism performed on a group of black baptismal candidates under the authority of the Moravian Church. According to the caption underneath the engraving, the figure marked "A" is the pastor who performs the ritual; those marked "B" are the deacons who assist him. The three figures marked "C" are black men who will be exorcised. With their hands folded in prayer, the candidates kneel around the pastor and the two deacons. The pastor and each of his deacons places a hand upon one of the candidates' heads; the two others wait. Behind them, the four figures marked "D" are black women who will be exorcised. Those marked "E" are identified as members of the black parish., Fold-out plate at the back of David Cranz's Kurze, zuverlässige Nachricht von der, unter dem Namen der Böhmisch-Mährischen Brüder bekanten Kirche Unitas Fratrum (Halle: s.n., 1757), plate NIV., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Date: [1757]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1757 Cran 72764.O plate NIV, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2674

Title: A Negro funeral
Description: Engraving accompanies T. Addison Richard's narrative, "The Rice Lands of the South," which, among other topics, describes slave life on southern rice plantations. It shows a slave funeral, set in a heavily wooded grove, in which numerous mourners take part. A preacher with raised, out-streched arms leads the service; mourners kneel, pray, and weep. Engraving corresponds with the following passage: "The state of excitement and exaltation to which their [i.e, the plantation slaves'] impressionable natures are so easily wrought, especially in religious matters, is manifest in their singing even more strangely than in their preaching and praying. These performances though, are, with all their grotesqueness and absurdity, often very effective and beautiful. Not seldom has it been our pleasure to listen to impromptu music, wondrously sweet and wild and weird, which, well counterfeited on the lyric stage, would bring fame and fortune. Perhaps the most remarkable of these exhibtions are those which are wont to occur on occasions of funeral solemnities, celebrated, as they generally are, in the deep night-darkness of some dense old wood, made doubly dismal by the ghostly light of the pine torches and the phantom-like figures of the scarcely visible mourners." (p. 735), Illustration in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 19, no. 114 (November 1859), p. 731., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Date: [November 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 19 n 114 November 1859 p 731, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2876

Title: The first day of the yam custom
Description: Depicts the annual yam festival, a large public ceremony held at the beginning of the yam harvest in September. It includes a vast and diverse array of figures: the King, his warriors, dancers, musicians, officers of the foreign mission, Moors, and various onlookers. Toward the center of the scene, the King sits underneath the state umbrella, which is bright red, topped by a golden elephant, and flanked by the flags of Great Britain, Holland, and Denmark. The children of the nobility sit at the King's feet, waving elephant tails. A procession of dancers approaches the King; those at the front beat skulls decorated with thyme. Farther to the left, a bloody prisoner is being led by two of the King's messengers. In the background, Odumata, an aged aristocrat, is being carried in the state hammock. At the extreme left, a group of captains dance in a circle, firing their guns. At the far right, a group of Moors watch the festivities. Closer to the center, officers of the mission can be seen. Their linguists sit in front of them; their soldiers and servants stand behind them., Fold-out plate in T. Edward Bowdich's Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee: with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of Other Parts of the Interior of Africa (London: J. Murray, Albemarle-Street: printed by W. Pulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1819), p. 274., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Creator: R. Havell & Son, engraver
Date: Dec. 2, 1818
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Afri Bowd 12983.Q p 274, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2894

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