The husband and wife, after being sold to different purchasers, violently separated, probably never to see each other more [graphic].
Title
The husband and wife, after being sold to different purchasers, violently separated, probably never to see each other more
Description
Image depicts a slaveowner who moves to whip three partially clothed slave figures, a husband, a wife, and their small child. The husband and wife cling to each other as their child stands to the right. In the background, another slaveowner raises his whip toward four slaves who march in a line in front of him., Illustration in Thomas Branagan's Penitential Tyrant (New York: Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, 1807), p. 267., Engraving attributed to Alexander Anderson., Images in this work derived from oral testimony given before the British Parliament's Select Committee Appointed to Take the Examination of Witnesses Respecting the African Slave Trade originally published as An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered Before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the Years 1790 and 1791; on the part of the petitioners for the abolition of the slave-trade (London: printed by James Phillips, 1791). Images also issued in a number of other printed works including Remarks on the Methods of Procuring Slaves with a Short Account of Their Treatment in the West-Indies (London: printed by and for Darton and Harvey, no. 66 Gracechurch Street, MDCCXCIII [1793]); Der Neue Hoch Deutsche Americanische Calender auf das jahr 1797 (Baltimore: Samuel Saur, 1796); Injured Humanity: Being a Representation of What the Unhappy Children of Africa Endure from Those Who Call Themselves Christians... (New York: printed and sold by Samuel Wood, no. 362 Pearl Street, (between 1805 and 1808); and The Mirror of Misery, or, Tyranny Exposed (New York: printed and sold by Samuel Wood, 1807) and later editions issued in 1811 and 1814., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Creator
Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870, engraver
Date
[1807]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1807 Bra 2721.D. p 267, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2710
[Frontispiece for Histoire philosophique et politique] [graphic] / Ch. Eisen del. ; N. Delaunay Sulpt.
Title
[Frontispiece for Histoire philosophique et politique]
Description
In the central foreground, a female slave is purchased by a European planter (left), who completes the transaction by giving a sack of coins to a slave merchant. Chained and shackled, the slave leans over and covers her face in despair. Behind her, several Europeans congregate in the tropical landscape. A vessel, presumably a slave-ship, is docked in the background., Frontispiece for Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements & du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes (A Maestricht: Chez Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, imprimeurs & libraires, associés, M.DCC.LXXVII [1777])., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images from the Slave Trade.
Creator
Delaunay, Nicolas, 1739-1792, engraver
Date
1773
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1777 Ray 62416.D frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2679