Profile view of a half-kneeling slave figure facing right. His ankles and wrists are shackled and chained; his hands are clenched together and raised in a beseeching manner., Title page vignette in Adresse a l'Assemblée nationale, pour l'Abolition de la Traite des noirs (A Paris: De l'imp. de L. Potier de Lille, rue Favart, no. 5., 1790)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date
[1790]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1790 Soc 1979.O.6 title page vignette, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2683
Allegorical figure representing liberty blesses and grasps the hand of a male slave who kneels before her. One of the slave's shackles lies broken on the ground, the other remains on his leg. Behind him, a group of enchained slaves look on as they wait to approach the figure of Liberty., Frontispiece for Benjamin-Sigismond Frossard's La Cause des esclaves nègres et des habitans de la Guinée (A Lyon: De l'imprimerie d'Aimé de La Roche, imprimeur de la Société royale d'agriculture, 1789)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Creator
Boily, Charles-Ange, 1738 or 9-1813, engraver
Date
[1789]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1789 Fross 1971.O frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2681
Profile view of a half-kneeling slave figure facing right. His ankles and wrists are shackled and chained; his hands are clenched together and raised in an imploratory manner., Title page vignette in James Field Stanfield's Observations on a Guinea Voyage (London: printed by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1788)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date
[1788]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1788 Sta 67036.D title page vignette, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2680
