Detail View: JCB Political Cartoons: JOHN BULL taking a Clear View of the Negro Slavery Question!!
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Accession number:
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12-173
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Title:
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JOHN BULL taking a Clear View of the Negro Slavery Question!!
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Place:
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London
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Publisher:
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G. Humphry 24 St. James's Street
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Date:
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July 1826
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Image technique:
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engraving, colored
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Image dimensions:
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21 X 36 cm. (image)
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Narrative description:
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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."
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Creators:
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R[ober]t Cruikshank Fecit.
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Subject:
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Abolition of the slave trade
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Normalized date:
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1826
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