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Title: [The rebel pirate's fatal prize]
Description: Image depicts a scene on board the schooner S.J. Waring. The ship's steward William Tillman [i.e., Billy Tilghman], "the brave and daring negro," armed with a hatchet, defends himself and his wife from three men identified as the "Pirate Prize Master, Lieutenant, and Mate," who stand in his doorway. Having learned of their secret plot to sell him and his wife into slavery, Tillman murders them., Vignette on the broadside advertisement for The Rebel Pirate's Fatal Prize (Philadelphia: Reichner & Co., 1862)., Accompanied by the caption: "Back sirs! She is my wife, she is no slave! Seize her at your peril.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Resistance.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1862 Und (2) 5786.F 46e broadside vignette, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2809

Title: The bridal dance
Description: Engraving depicts a fictional episode from Chapter IV, "Christmas." The scene takes place on Fairfax Plantation on Christmas day. The newly married couple, Jim and July, dance merrily to the music of fiddles, banjos, and tamborines, while other slaves look on. The pair are still dressed in their wedding attire: July is described as "resplendent in a white dress, white cotton gloves, a string of mock-pearls about her neck, and a wreath of silver flowers about her head," while Jim wears "a gorgeous waistcoat, had a sprig of flowers in the button-hole of his coat, and also sported white cotton gloves." According to the text, a bonfire provided the illumination for these festivities, which grew gayer as evening turned into night., Illustration in Metta Victoria Fuller Victor's Maum Guinea, and her plantation "children" (London: Beadle and Company,44 Paternoster Row; New York: Beadle and Company, 141 William Street, 1861), p. 46., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Creator: N. Orr & Co., engraver
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1861 Victo 70421.O p 46, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2808

Title: Emancipated slaves
Description: From left to right, the group portrait shows: Wilson Chinn, a man of about sixty, whose forehead was branded with the initials V.B.M.; Charles Taylor, an eight year-old boy identified in the accompanying text as white; August Broujey, a nine year-old girl whose mother was "almost white;" Mary Johnson, an adult woman; Isaac Watts, a black boy of nine; Rebecca Huger, an eleven year-old, who "to all appearance . . . is perfectly white;" the Reverend Robert Whitehead, an ordained preacher; and Rosina Downs, a "fair child" of "not quite seven years." In addition to the group portrait, cartes de visite of the individual sitters were made. As the accompanying text explains, both could be purchased through the New York-based National Freeman's Relief Association; the proceeds went to support Louisiana schools., Full-page illustration in Harper's Weekly (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864), vol. 8, no. 370 (January 30, 1864), p. 69., Small caption underneath the image reads: "Emancipated slaves, white and colored. -- The children are from the schools established in New Orleans, by order of Major-General Banes.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date: [January 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare **Per H 1529.F v 8 n 370 Jan 30 1864 p 69, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2878

Title: Harvest in Wanyamézi
Description: Illustration included in Chapter V, "Unyamuezi." Unyamuezi [i.e., Unyamwezi] was one of the largest kingdoms in East Africa; its people are called Wanyamezi. As the title suggests, the engraving shows a Wanyamezi harvest in 1861. Corn, which grew abundantly on the richly cultivated land, is shown at the top. In the center, four men thrash the corn with long-handled paddles. At the bottom, women are shown cutting, separating, and grinding the corn., Illustration in John Hanning Speke's Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864), p. 129., According to a note on the title-page, the book's illustrations are "chiefly from drawings by Captain Grant.", Caption reads: "1, 2, 3, 4. Grain. Maize, etc., stacked for the season. 5. Men with long rackets thrashing Kafir corn (sorghum). 6. Woman in the field cutting "sorghum" with a knife, and depositing it in a basket. 7. Women separating the corn from the chaff by means of a wooden pestle and mortar. 8. Woman grinding corn upon a single slab of stone.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1864 Speke 15863.O p 129, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2810

Title: Fan blacksmiths
Description: From 1855-59, Paul B. Du Chaillu (Paul Belloni), a French-American explorer, led an expedition through Gabon, which was supported by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Scienes. Du Chaillu's observations were published in Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa (1861). This engraving is set in a village inhabited by the Fan peoples, who settled in the area around the Gabon River. It shows two Fan blacksmith working over a small fire. "As blacksmiths," Du Chaillu wrote, "they very far surpass all the tribes of this region who have not come in contact with whites. Their war-like habits have made iron a most necessary article to them; and though their tools are very simple, their patience is great, and, as the reader will perceive from the pictures of their arms, they produce some very neat workmanship." (p. 91) Describing the scene shown in the engraving, Du Chaillu continued, "The forge is set up anywhere where a fire can be built. They have invented a singular bellows, composed of two short, hollowed cylinders of wood, surmounted by skins accurately fitted on, and having an appropriate valve and a wooden handle. The bellows-man sits down, and moves these coverings up and down with great rapidity, and the air is led through small wooden pipes into an iron joint which emerges in the fire. The anvil is a solid piece of iron of the shape seen in the illustration. The sharp end is stuck into the ground, and the blacksmith sits alongside of his anvil and beats iron with a singular hammer, which is simply a piece of iron weighing three to six pounds, and in shape of a truncated cone. It has no handle, but is held by the smaller end, and, of course, the blows require much more strength." (p. 91-92), Illustration in Paul B. Du Chaillu's Explorations & adventures in equatorial Africa: With accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and the chace of the gorilla, crocodile, leopard, elephant, hippopotamus, and other animals (London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1861), p. 91., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri Du Chail 15232.O p 91, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2901

Title: Slave barracoons -- burial-ground
Description: Illustration depicts an episode that Du Chaillu witnessed during his stay in Cape Lopez (in the modern country of Gabon). As he wrote, "During my stay in the village, as I was one day out shooting birds in a grove not far from my house, I saw a procession of slaves coming from one of the barracoons toward the farther end of my grove. As the came nearer, I saw that two gangs of six slaves each, all chained about the neck, were carrying a burden between them, which I knew presently to be the corpse of another slave. They bore it to the edge of the grove, about three hundred yards from my house, and, throwing it down there on the bare ground, they returned to their prison, accompanied by the overseer, who, with his whip, had marched behind them." (p. 115), Plate in Paul Du Chaillu's Stories of the Gorilla Country: Narrated for Young People (New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, 1868), p. 108., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1868 Du Chail 17468.D p 108, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2819

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