Am I not a man and a brother? – 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: Am I not a man and a brother?, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Sold from the Anti-Slavery Office at 144 Nassau Street in New York in 1837, this woodcut takes up a slogan that British abolitionists made famous in the late 1780s, when a kneeling, shackled man above the words "Am I not a man and a brother?" became a popular emblem of the antislavery cause. This American sheet adapts that appeal for a domestic audience during years when abolition was growing and bitterly contested. The catalog record also links it to John Greenleaf Whittier, the Quaker poet who became one of the movement's most active writers. The print shows how British antislavery imagery was carried across the Atlantic and reshaped for American reformers.
| Created / published | 1837 |
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| Medium | 1 print : woodcut on wove paper ; 26.7 x 22.8 cm. |
| Genre | Broadsides 1830-1840.Woodcuts 1830-1840. |
| Notes | N.Y. sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, 144 Nassau St. 1837. Title appears as it is written on the item. Wedgwood Portraits and the American Revolution, p. 116-117. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1837-16. |
| Subjects | Whittier, John Greenleaf,--1807-1892. Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Dominions--1830-1840. African Americans--1830-1840. Abolition movement--1830-1840. Slavery--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,152 × 1,447 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219113 |
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