The Liberty Almanac for 1847: [title page, showing freed slave with U.S. Capitol in background] – Vintage Print
![The Liberty Almanac for 1847: [title page, showing freed slave with U.S. Capitol in background], 1847 — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a6/a6e349d38d07-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of The Liberty Almanac for 1847: [title page, showing freed slave with U.S. Capitol in background]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Among the almanacs of the 1840s, a title page that places a freed man before the national Capitol stands out from the usual calendars of its day. *The Liberty Almanac for 1847* belongs to a run of antislavery almanacs that paired calendar tables with essays and images arguing against slavery, a format that reached households and reading rooms across the North. The Capitol behind the figure was still unfinished in 1847, with its iron dome not yet built, and the building stood at the center of the debates over slavery's expansion into new territories. The page shows how reform publications used familiar symbols to make a political argument.
| Created / published | 1847 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African American hist.--Slavery; Almanacs; African American hist.--Emancipation; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 911 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131892 |
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