Domestic scene showing the household of an emancipated black family. In the center of the scene, a woman stands with her infant child. She is flanked by her young son, who stands to the left, and by her husband and a third child, who are seen at the right. Seated on a low stool, the husband reads from a book, presumably the Bible. Some work gear and instruments hang on the wall: a basket, a straw hat, and two hoes. Another family can be seen through an open doorway, and a church is visible in the distant background., Cover page of Negro's Friend: on the ease, safety, and advantages of liberating the enslaved Negroes; and on compensation to their masters (London: Printed by Bagster and Thoms, 1830?)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date
[1830?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1830 Neg Fri 67066.D front cover, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2731
Title page vignette to Heyrick's militant call for immediate and uncompensated abolition of slavery revises the classic antislavery symbol of the supplicant slave, kneeling prayerfully and pleading "Am I not a man and a brother." In Heyrick's version, the supplicant stands upright, with broken chains at his feet and declares "I am a man, your brother.", Title page vignette in Elizabeth Heyrick's Immediate, Not Gradual Abolution (London: printed by R. Clay, Devonshire-Street, Bishopsgate.: Sold by F. Westley, 10, Stationers' Court; & S. Burton, 156, Leadenhall Street; and by all booksellers and newsmen, 1824)., Caption reads: "He hath made of one blood all nations of men." -- Acts xvii. 26., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date
[1824]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1824 Heyr 70373.O title page vignette, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2728
