Slave market of America – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: Slave market of America, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Few images of the period tie slavery so directly to the national capital. This 1836 broadside from the American Anti-Slavery Society sets nine wood engravings beside a text that names the Declaration of Independence, the United States Capitol, and the slave markets of Alexandria, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Theodore Dwight Weld, a leading abolitionist lecturer and organizer, is named among its subjects. The contrast it draws between the young republic's founding principles and the buying and selling of enslaved people within sight of Congress was a central argument of the movement, which was then pressing Congress to act against slavery in the District.
| Created / published | New-York : Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836. |
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| Medium | 1 print : letterpress with nine wood-engravings ; 64.2 x 48.5 cm (sheet) |
| Genre | Broadsides 1830-1840.Letterpress works 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 144 Nassau-street, New-York, 1836. Title appears as it is written on the item. William S. Dorr, Pr. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1836-23. |
| Subjects | Weld, Theodore Dwight,--1803-1895. United States. Declaration of Independence--1830-1840. United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1830-1840. Slavery--1830-1840. Alexandria (Va.)--1830-1840. Washington (D.C.)--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,194 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119142 |
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