The author confined in the pillory – 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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The author confined in the pillory comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The author confined in the pillory
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Here Jonathan Walker stands fixed in the pillory at Pensacola, Florida, the moment the engraving captures from his public punishment. Walker, a sailor from Massachusetts, had tried in 1844 to carry enslaved people by boat toward freedom, and his capture led to a trial, a fine, imprisonment, and the humiliation of the pillory. Antislavery printers in Boston issued this image in 1845 as an illustration in an account of his case, and they used his suffering to rouse sympathy for abolition. The engraving is worth studying for how it turns a single courtroom sentence into a public spectacle meant to shame the state that imposed it.
| Created / published | 1845 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1840-1850.Wood engravings 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for aiding slaves to escape from bondage. Boston : Pub. at the Anti-slavery office, 1845. Published in: Slavery in the courtroom : an annotated bibliography of American cases / Paul Finkelman. Washington : Library of Congress, 1985, p. 171. |
| Subjects | Walker, Jonathan,--1799-1878. Pillories--Florida--Pensacola--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,041 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162100 |
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