The Sale – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The Sale. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Published in Philadelphia in 1863, this color lithograph titled *The Sale* is numbered 59 in a series called *The Slave in 1863*, issued as part of an album of collecting cards. Its subject, an auction of enslaved people, places it within the long history of the domestic slave trade, which had operated across the South for decades. The print appeared the same year the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, when the nation's war was increasingly about slavery itself. Stephens, who registered the copyright, produced it as one of many images that brought the realities of slavery to a northern audience during the Civil War.
| Created / published | c1863. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Collecting cards 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 3, no. 59. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863. |
| Subjects | Slave trade--United States--1860-1870. Auctions--United States--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,148 × 1,471 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216627 |
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