Am I not a man and a brother? – 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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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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Few antislavery images are as recognizable as the kneeling figure beneath the question "Am I not a man and a brother?" This woodcut broadside was sold in New York in 1837 from the Anti-Slavery Office on Nassau Street, and its catalog record also links it to John Greenleaf Whittier, then a rising writer in the American abolition cause. The motif dates to Britain in 1787, when Josiah Wedgwood's pottery medallion of a chained, kneeling man spread the slogan across the Atlantic. Its reappearance on a New York broadside shows how that British design was adapted by American campaigners.
| Created / published | 1837 |
|---|---|
| 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 | 1,028 × 1,280 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-121548 |
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