A slave father sold away from his family – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique engraving of A slave father sold away from his family brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A slave father sold away from his family
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The engraving centers on a father sold away from his family, with the loss of the household, not the auction itself, as its subject. It serves as the frontispiece to *The Child's Anti-Slavery Book*, published in New York in 1860, when antislavery writers used plain images like this to bring the domestic slave trade to young readers. Separation by sale was among the most feared consequences of slavery, and the print asks its audience to see that rupture as a family's grief rather than a financial transaction.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: The Child's Anti-Slavery Book..., New York, [1860], frontispiece. Ref. copy may be in SSF - NEGRO SLAVERY--AUCTIONS AND TRADE--1860. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Negroes--Family groups--ca.1860; Negro slavery--Auctions and trade--1860; RBD; Families; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,345 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149038 |
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