COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
69-1068
Record number:
69-1068-5
JCB call number:
D828 F331t / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Slaves exposed for Sale.
Place image published:
[Birmingham]
Image publisher:
[Benjamin Hudson]
Image date:
[1828]
Image function:
plate; [part 14]
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.5 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
14.3 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
25.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
20 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Black women [slaves] and a child stand in a group while European gentlemen look them over for purchase. Includes a thatched roof.
Source creator:
Female Society, for Birmingham, West-Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Their Respective Neighbourhoods, for the Relief of British Negro Slaves
Source Title:
[Album for the relief of British negro slaves]
Source place of publication:
Birmingham
Source publisher:
Printed by Benjamin Hudson, Bull Street
Source date:
1828
notes:
The Birmingham Female Society for ... the relief of British negro slaves was founded in 1825, and was established as an emancipationist or abolitionist group and to raise charity funds to relieve the suffering of British negroes. This album was produced by the women to encourage public support for the abolitionist cause and contains a diverse collection of abolitionist poems, newspapers, engravings, and illustrations against slavery in the British West Indies.
Time Period:
1801-1850
References:
http://www.connecti… (June 2007)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1969.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Slavery--Caribbean area
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