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Slave-Coffle

A Slave Auction at the South

Inspection and Sale

Captives Being Sent Into Bondage

The Underground Railroad

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Reward

For Sale

Effects of the Fugitive Slave Law

Henry Box Brown

Am I Not A Man And A Brother?

Slave Ship and Its Cargo

Africans in Hold of Slave Ship

Slave Factories

Slave-Coffle TITLE: A slave-coffle passing the Capitol CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in E178 .B92 [General Collections] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-2574 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:  Slaves wearing handcuffs and shackles passing the United States Capitol, around 1815. MEDIUM:  1 print : wood engraving. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [published between 1876 and 1881] NOTES: Illus. in: A popular history of the United States. New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and company, 1876-1881. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-1. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a06246 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a06246 VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003A-06246 (from b&w film copy neg.) CARD #:  98510280

A Slave Auction at the South TITLE:  A slave auction at the south / from an original sketch by Theodore R. Davis. CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in AP2.H32 1861 Case Y [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-2582 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY:  African American men, women, and children being auctioned off in front of crowd of men. MEDIUM:  1 print : wood engraving. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  1861. NOTES: Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 237, 1861 July 13, p. 442. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-1. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a06254 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a06254 VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003A-06254 (from b&w film copy neg.) CARD #:  98510250

Inspection and Sale TITLE: Inspection and sale of a negro CALL NUMBER:  LOT 4422-A-1 <item> [P&P]   Check for an online group record (may link to related items) REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-15392 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:  An African man being inspected for sale into slavery while a white man talks with African slave traders. MEDIUM:  1 photomechanical print. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1854 engraving, reproduced between 1960 and 1980] NOTES: Reproduction of a wood engraving by Whitney, Jocelyn & Annin from: Captain Canot; or, Twenty years of an African slaver / Brantz Mayer. New York : D. Appleton and company, 1854, between p. 94 and 95. Title transcribed from item. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a17639 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a17639 VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003A-17639 (from b&w film copy neg.) CARD #:  98510180

Captives Being Sent Into Bondage TITLE:  Tipo Tib's fresh captives being sent into bondage - witnessed by Stanley / Bayard(?). CALL NUMBER:  LOT 4422-A-1 <item> [P&P REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-28351 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:  Captives in African village being sent into slavery. MEDIUM:  1 photomechanical print. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [between 1930 and 1980] NOTES: Reproduction of a wood engraving. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a29129 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a29129 VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003A-29129 (from b&w film copy neg.) CARD #:  98510178

The Underground Railroad TITLE:  The underground railroad / Chas. T. Webber. CALL NUMBER:  LOT 4422-A-2 <item> [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-28860 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:  African Americans in wagon and on foot, escaping from slavery. MEDIUM:  1 photographic print : albumen. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  c1893. NOTES: 52844(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of a painting by Charles T. Webber in the Cincinnati Art Museum. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a29554 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a29554 VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003A-29554 (from b&w film copy neg.) CARD #:  98510370

Nat Turner’s Rebellion TITLE:  Horrid massacre in Virginia CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in F232.S7 W2 [Rare Book RR] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-38902 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-33451 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:  Composite of scenes of Nat Turner's rebellion. MEDIUM:  1 print : woodcut. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1831] NOTES: Illus. in: Authentic and impartial narrative of the tragical scene which was witnessed in Southampton County. [New York], 1831. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-3. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg. LC-USZ62-38902) cph 3a39248 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a39248 (b&w film copy neg. LC-USZ62-33451) cph 3a33960 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a33960 VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003A-39248 (from b&w film copy neg. LC-USZ62-38902) LCPP003A-33960 (from b&w film copy neg. LC-USZ62-33451) CARD #:  98510363

Reward TITLE:  $100 Reward! Ranaway from [...] Ripley County, Mo., [...] 1860, a Negro Man [...] CALL NUMBER:  LOT 4422-A-1 <item> [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-39380 (b&w film copy neg.) MEDIUM:  1 photographic print. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [between 1960 and 1990] NOTES: Reproduction of a broadside from 1860. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a39725 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a39725 VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003A-39725 (from b&w film copy neg.) CARD #:  98504563

For Sale TITLE:  To be sold, on board the ship Bance Island, ... negroes, just arrived from the Windward & Rice Coast CALL NUMBER:  LOT 4422-A-1 [item] [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-10293 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:  Photograph of newspaper advertisement from the 1780s(?) for the sale of slaves at Ashley Ferry outside of Charleston, South Carolina. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a52072 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a52072 VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003A-52072 (from b&w film copy neg.) CARD #:  98503865

Effects of the Fugitive Slave Law TITLE:  Effects of the Fugitive-Slave-Law. CALL NUMBER:  PC/US - 1850.H698, no. 1 (B size) <P&P>[P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-4550 (color film copy transparency); LC-USZ62-1286 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:  An impassioned condemnation of the Fugitive Slave Act passed by Congress in September 1850, which increased federal and free-state responsibility for the recovery of fugitive slaves. The law provided for the appointment of federal commissioners empowered to issue warrants for the arrest of alleged fugitive slaves and to enlist the aid of posses and even civilian bystanders in their apprehension. The print shows a group of four black men--possibly freedmen--ambushed by a posse of six armed whites in a cornfield. One of the white men fires on them, while two of his companions reload their muskets. Two of the blacks have evidently been hit; one has fallen to the ground while the second staggers, clutching the back of his bleeding head. The two others react with horror. Below the picture are two texts, one from Deuteronomy: "Thou shalt not deliver unto the master his servant which has escaped from his master unto thee. He shall dwell with thee. Even among you in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates where it liketh him best. Thou shalt not oppress him." The second text is from the Declaration of Independence: "We hold that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The print is unusually well drawn and composed for a political print of the period. The handling of both the lithographic technique and the figures betray particular skill. MEDIUM:  1 print : Lithograph on wove paper ; 33.3 x 44.3 cm (image) CREATED/PUBLISHED:  New York : Hoff & Bloede, 1850. NOTES: Title appears as it is written on the item. Signed in reverse: Th. Kaufmann [Theodor Kaufmann?] Publ. by Hoff & Bloede New York 180 William Str. Corner of Spruce Str. [New York] Entered . . . 1850 by Hoff & Bloede . . . The Library's impression of the print was deposited for copyright on October 30, 1850. Weitenkampf, p. 101 Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1850-5. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy transparency) cph 3g04550 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04550; (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a05114 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a05114 CARD #:  app1994000316/PP

Henry Box Brown TITLE:  The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, who escaped from Richmond Va. in a bx 3 feet long 2 1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft wide CALL NUMBER:  PGA - Brown--Resurrection... (B size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-4659 (color film copy transparency); LC-USZ62-1283 (b&w film copy neg.); LC-USZCN4-225 (color film copy neg.) SUMMARY:  A somewhat comic yet sympathetic portrayal of the culminating episode in the flight of slave Henry Brown "who escaped from Richmond Va. in a Box 3 feet long, 2-1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft. wide." In the office of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, the young Brown emerges from a crate as several figures, including Frederick Douglass (holding a claw hammer at left) look on. Details of Brown's escape, whereby he had himself shipped via Adams Express from Richmond to Philadelphia, were widely publicized in a narrative of his ordeal published under his own name in 1849. The box itself became an abolitionist metaphor for the inhumanity and spiritual suffocation of slavery. It is shown on an undated broadside published in Boston (Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Broadside Collection, portfolio 65, no. 16). MEDIUM:  1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 27 x 40 cm., sheet 34.7 x 45.2 cm. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [New York] : Publ. by A. Donnelly, no. 19 1/2 Courtland St., N.Y. c1850. NOTES: Title from print. A similar lithograph with the same title, giving a slightly different version of the scene, was drawn on stone by Peter Kramer and printed by Thomas Sinclair of Philadelphia. (An impression is in the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia.) "Entered ... 1850 by Henry Box Brown ... District Court of Massachusetts." The Library's impression of the print was deposited for copyright on January 10, 1850. DLC Weitenkampf, p. 101 Annual Report of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1975, p. 59-60 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1850-4. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy transparency) cph 3g04659 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04659 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a05111 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a05111 CARD #:  2004665363

Am I Not A Man And A Brother? TITLE:  Am I not a man and a brother? CALL NUMBER:  Broadside Collection, portfolio 118, no. 32a <Rare Bk Coll>[P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-5321 (color film copy transparency); LC-USZCN4-250 (color film copy neg.); LC-USZ62-44265 (b&w film copy neg. of detail of man and banner) SUMMARY:  The large, bold woodcut image of a supplicant male slave in chains appears on the 1837 broadside publication of John Greenleaf Whittier's antislavery poem, "Our Countrymen in Chains." The design was originally adopted as the seal of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery in England in the 1780s, and appeared on several medallions for the society made by Josiah Wedgwood as early as 1787. Here, in addition to Whittier's poem, the appeal to conscience against slavery continues with two further quotes. The first is the scriptural warning, "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. "Exod[us] XXI, 16." Next the claim, "England has 800,000 Slaves, and she has made them free. America has 2,250,000! and she holds them fast!!!!" The broadside is advertised at "Price Two Cents Single; or $1.00 per hundred. MEDIUM:  1 print : Woodcut on wove paper ; 26.7 x 22.8 cm (woodcut) CREATED/PUBLISHED:  1837. NOTES: Title appears as it is written on the item. N.Y. Sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, 144 Nassau St. 1837 Wedgwood Portraits and the American Revolution,, pp. 116-17 Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1837-16. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy transparency) cph 3g05321 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g05321 (color film copy neg.) cph 3j00250 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3j00250 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a44497 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a44497 CARD #:  app1994000046/PP

Slave Ship and Its Cargo TITLE:  Stowage of the British slave ship Brookes under the regulated slave trade act of 1788 CALL NUMBER:  Broadside Port. 282, no. 43 [Rare Book RR] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-44000 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-34160 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:  Illustration showing deck plans and cross sections of British slave ship Brookes. FORMAT: Etchings 1780-1790. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg. LC-USZ62-44000) cph 3a44236 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a44236 (b&w film copy neg. LC-USZ62-34160) cph 3a34658 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a34658 VIDEO FRAME ID:  LCPP003A-44236 (from b&w film copy neg. LC-USZ62-44000) LCPP003A-34658 (from b&w film copy neg. LC-USZ62-34160) CARD #:  98504459

Africans in Hold of Slave Ship Richard Drake, Revelations of a Slave Smuggler (New York, 1860), p.28. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-30818) Comments Caption, "Scene in the Hold of the 'Blood-Stained Gloria' (Middle Passage)." The author sailed on the Gloria, a Brazilian slaver, for a half dozen trips over a two-year period; conditions aboard the ship are described on pp. 89-90. The illustration is also in the 1972 reprint of Drake's work (Metro Books, Northbrook, Ill.), foreward by Blyden Jackson.

Slave Factories TITLE:  [Slave factories, or compounds, maintained by traders from four European nations on the Gulf of Guinea in what is now Nigeria] / N. Parr, sculp. CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in G160.A85 [Rare Book RR] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-106828 (b&w film copy neg.) MEDIUM:  1 engraving. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [published 1746] CREATOR: Parr, Nathaniel, engraver. NOTES: Illus. in: A New and general collection of voyages / Thomas Astley. London, 1746, vol. 3, p. 64. DIGITAL ID:  (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c06828 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c06828 CARD #:  92520148