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Title: Washington and his servant
Description: Illustration included in Chapter II, "First Years of the Constitution." It shows President George Washington walking on a cobblestone sidewalk with his black manservant, who follows a few steps behind him. Image appears in the context of a discussion of Washington's taste for fashion and "courtly etiquette," and it relates to the following passage: "When he walked the streets his body-servant in livery followed him at respectful distance." Carrying a walking-stick, the well-dressed Washington wears breeches, a dark vest and waistcoat, and a bicorne, a type of hat commonly worn by intellectuals. His servant carries his dark-colored overcoat. The servant himself wears a lighter suit and a tricorne., Engraving in Charles Coffin's Building the Nation: Events in the History of the United States from the Revolution to the Beginning of the War between the States (New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1883), p. 37., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Date: [1883]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1883 Cof 23709.O p 37, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2831

Title: Must have their baskets full
Description: Illustration included in Chapter XXVII, "Compromise of 1850." Set on a plantation, it shows two slaves, a man and a woman, at work in a cotton-field. Woman balances a basket of cotton on her head, while the man carries his on his shoulders. Image relates to the following description of slave life: "From the auction-room they went to the plantation to work in the cotton-fields, beneath the broiling sun, driven by a brutal overseer sitting on a horse, with a whip in his hand, which he delighted to crack over them, or to bring down upon the back of any one that lagged. The weak and feeble must keep up with the strong in wielding the heavy hoe. When the fields were snow-white with the bursting bolls they must perform their allotted tasks in picking; the baskets must be full and running over: the number of pounds specified for a day's work to be tipped by the steel-yards, or in default they would be flogged." (p. 387), Engraving in Charles Coffin's Building the Nation: Events in the History of the United States from the Revolution to the Beginning of the War between the States (New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1883), p. 388., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Date: [1883]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1883 Cof 23709.O p 388, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2832

Title: The fugitive slave law in operation
Description: Illustration accompanies Poore's critical commentary on the consequences of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the manner in which fugitive slaves in northern states were returned to the South. Here, two armed authorities forcibly remove a black man from his home while a kneeling black child appears to beg for mercy., Illustration in Benjamin Perley Poore's Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis (Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, c1886), p. 454., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Resistance.
Creator: Bobbett, Albert, ca. 1824-1888 or 9, engraver
Date: [c1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1886 Poore 24984.O v 1 p 454, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2835

Title: "On to Orleans": the Negro Insurrection
Description: Image depicts a scene from the 1811 insurrection of slaves in the Louisiana parish of St. John the Baptist, thirty-six miles north of New Orleans. According to Thompson's history, approximately 500 slaves formed a procession, complete with flags and drums, and set out for New Orleans. Along the way, they destroyed plantations and encouraged other slaves to join them. After news spread to Baton Rouge and Fort St. Charles, the marchers were met by a garrison. Many of the them were killed instantly; others were tried and later executed., Illustration in Maurice Thompson's Story of Louisiana (Boston: D. Lothrop Company, c1888), p. 192., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Resistance.
Creator: Bridgman, L. J. (Lewis Jesse), 1857-1931, engraver
Date: [c1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1888 Thom 25801.O p 192, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2837

Title: Slaves taken from an Arab dhow
Description: Set below the deck of an Arab coasting vessel in Zanzibar, the illustration shows a group of scantily dressed, emaciated male slaves. An accompanying quote from Edward Steere contextualizes the image. Steere wrote, "I hope one may never see again such sights as one used to see almost daily when we first landed in Zanzibar -- the miserable remains of the great slave caravans from the interior, brought by sea to Zanzibar, packed so closely that they could scarcely move, and allowed nothing of food on the voyage but a few handfuls of raw rice passed round to be nibbled at. It is said, sometimes, that our efforts to stop the slave traffic have increased the sufferings of the slaves during their transit, but it was simply impossible to increase the misery of this open and unrestrained traffic between Kilwa and Zanzibar. Even as it was, the least delay caused a large proportion of deaths, and the parties of slaves that were led from the custom-house to their owners' houses presented every form of emaciation and disease, till it seemed impossible that they could support themselves, if only for a few minutes longer." (p. 77-78), Plate in Robert Marshall Heanley's A Memoir of Edward Steere, D.D., LL.D.: Third Missionary Bishop in Central Africa (London: George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1888), p. 78., Artist's imprint illegible., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Date: [1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri Hean 52606.D p 78, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2914

Title: La traite des noirs
Description: Image is set below the decks of a slave-ship during the middle passage. Most of the slaves wear chains and shackles on their wrists. Some try to sleep on the floor; others simply wait. In the center of the scene, a mother holds her infant child. The father buries his face in the mother's hair, and rests his hand on the shoulder of his older daughter., Engraving in Albert Laporte's Récits du vieux marins (Paris: Librairie Théodore Lefèvre et cie 2, rue des Poitevins, 1883?), p. 238., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Creator: Trichon, engraver
Date: [1883?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1883 Lap 7206.Q (Lewis) p 238, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2833

Title: Revolte sur un bâtiment négrier
Description: Image depicts a revolt aboard a slave-ship. Having broken free of their shackles and chains, the slaves use them to attack the ship's crew. The crew members fight back with daggers and hatchets., Engraving in Albert Laporte's Récits du vieux marins (Paris: Librairie Théodore Lefèvre et cie 2, rue des Poitevins, 1883?), p. 267., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Date: [1883?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1883 Lap 7206.Q (Lewis) p 267, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2834

Title: [Parting scene; Old Kentucky Home]
Description: This parting scene illustrates a verse from Foster's song. Standing on the front porch of the old Kentucky home, a black woman cries into a handkerchief as she watches a black man walking away. He is followed by another man on a horse., Plate in Stephen Collins Foster's My Old Kentucky Home (Boston: Ticknor and Company, 211 Tremont Street, 1888), n.p., The following verse is printed on the opposite page: "The time has come when the darkeys have to part, -- / Then my old Kentucky Home, good-night!", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Daily Life.
Creator: Kilburn & Cross
Date: [1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1888 Foster 70524.O n.p., https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2836

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