COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
12-173
Title:
JOHN BULL taking a Clear View of the Negro Slavery Question!!
Place:
London
Publisher:
G. Humphry 24 St. James's Street
Date:
July 1826
Image technique:
engraving, colored
Image dimensions:
21 X 36 cm. (image)
Narrative description:
Slavery--West Indies. Abolition movement. "John Bull" peers through a telescope at a coast [of Africa?] while a man next to him offers "Pictures of Negro Slavery" or slaves being whipped. Images include sugar warehouse, Black people dancing in distance, petitions to buy only East India sugar, pamphlets against Negro slavery, preacher preaching against slavery, and dog urinating on a petition "to think on Poor Pat."
Creators:
R[ober]t Cruikshank Fecit.
Subject:
Abolition of the slave trade
Normalized date:
1826
JOHN BULL taking a Clear View of the Negro Slavery Question!!
