Views of slavery

GLC06477

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GLC#
GLC06477
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
circa 1830-1840
Title
Views of slavery
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 35.6 cm, Width: 26.7 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Abolitionist broadside with six images depicting kidnapping, torture, auction, and labor of enslaved people. With Channing quotation, "Our laws know no higher crime than that of reducing a man to slavery. To steal or to buy an African on his own shores is a piracy." Lithograph drawings.

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