Print depicting a monument to Major John André. Shows a sarcophagus with Britannia weeping as she holds a shield with the Union Jack. In the left is a lion. Below is a tableau depicting the capture of Major André, who is led away by two men as he points to a woman and child in the right. In the left, a messenger hands General George Washington, surrounded by soldiers, an envelope. Soldiers march in the background. The sarcophagus rests on a pedestral that reads, "Sacred to the Memory, Major John Andre", Title from item., Date from periodical publication it was illustrated in: The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure . London : Published [...] according to Act of Parliament, for John Hinton, 1782 December, p. 329., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[1782]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Monuments and Statues - André [P.2010.6.29]
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
Image shows the plan of an African slave ship. From left to right, the ship is divided into the following compartments: men's room, boy's room, women's room, and girl's room. It also includes two small store rooms. Hundreds of human figures illustrate the extent to which the slaves were crowded on board, and suggest the conditions under which they made the passage., Illustration for Remarks on the Slave Trade, Extracted from the American Museum, for May, 1789. And published by order of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, &c. (Philadelphia: s.n., 1789)., A caption at the head of the engraving reads: "Plan of an African ship's lower deck, with Negroes, in the proportion of not quite one to a ton.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date
[1789]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1789 Rem 8645.F broadside, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2682
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
