Description: Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States illustrations, 1817

Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States illustrations, 1817

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Main Author:	Jesse Torrey, Jr., fl. 1787-1834 (Creator)
Date:	1817
Call Number:	Am 1817 Tor
Format:	Electronic
Subjects and Genres:	Book illustration
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Online Access:	https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/14267
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Summary:	This digital record contains ten images that depict the front and back covers, interior front cover, the frontispeice, title page, pages ii-iii, and six engravings. All illustrations have been digitized while the body of the text remains undigitized. It consists of Jesse Torrey, Jr.'s assessment of the state of slavery in the United States. He is particularly focused on the state of violence against free African-Americans in the north in regards to kidnapping and lynching. He includes and final section which recounts Park's Travels to Africa. Illustration 1 [frontispeice]: View of the Capitol of the United States, after the Conflagration, in 1814. [depicts the capitol building on fire with a group of chained African-American slaves in rags in the forefront being led by two white men. There are ruins of another building in the background with a large leafless tree growing through them. In the sky there appears to be two angels, one is standing, the other is sitting holding a stick or spear with a phrygian cap hanging ontop]. Illustration 2: Barbarity committed on a free African, who was found on the ensuing morning, by the side of the road, dead! [depicts two white men on horses flanking an African-American man, who is standing tied up with a rope that is attached to the left horse's tails. He appears to be extremely distressed. The man on the right side is branishing a whip]. Illustration 3: "-but I did not want to go, and I jumped out the window, -" [depicts an enslaved African-American woman jumping out of a fourth-floor window to prevent being sent to Georgia. According to the anecdote on the previous page on which the illustration was based, she did not survive the jump]. Illustration 4: The Author noting the narratives of several free born people of colour who had been kidnapped. [depicts a free African-American family sitting with a white man [Jess Torrey, Jr.] who is seated on a stool in the center of the room taking notes. He is listening intently to the father [presumably] who is in the middle of speaking with a blanket drapped around his shoulders]. Illustration 5: Kidnapping. A free African-American woman is accosted in her home by four white men. One holds a club and another has a rope around her neck. She is looking towards her child who is distressed and kicking towards a fifth man who has grabbed the child's arm]. Illustratin 6: "The poor white man, faint and weary, Came and sat under our tree. -" Park's Travel's in Africa.

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This digital record contains ten images that depict the front and back covers, interior front cover, the frontispeice, title page, pages ii-iii, and six engravings. All illustrations have been digitized while the body of the text remains undigitized. It consists of Jesse Torrey, Jr.'s assessment of the state of slavery in the United States. He is particularly focused on the state of violence against free African-Americans in the north in regards to kidnapping and lynching. He includes and final section which recounts Park's Travels to Africa.

Illustration 1 [frontispeice]: View of the Capitol of the United States, after the Conflagration, in 1814. [depicts the capitol building on fire with a group of chained African-American slaves in rags in the forefront being led by two white men. There are ruins of another building in the background with a large leafless tree growing through them. In the sky there appears to be two angels, one is standing, the other is sitting holding a stick or spear with a phrygian cap hanging ontop].
Illustration 2: Barbarity committed on a free African, who was found on the ensuing morning, by the side of the road, dead! [depicts two white men on horses flanking an African-American man, who is standing tied up with a rope that is attached to the left horse's tails. He appears to be extremely distressed. The man on the right side is branishing a whip].
Illustration 3: "-but I did not want to go, and I jumped out the window, -" [depicts an enslaved African-American woman jumping out of a fourth-floor window to prevent being sent to Georgia. According to the anecdote on the previous page on which the illustration was based, she did not survive the jump].
Illustration 4: The Author noting the narratives of several free born people of colour who had been kidnapped. [depicts a free African-American family sitting with a white man [Jess Torrey, Jr.] who is seated on a stool in the center of the room taking notes. He is listening intently to the father [presumably] who is in the middle of speaking with a blanket drapped around his shoulders].
Illustration 5: Kidnapping. A free African-American woman is accosted in her home by four white men. One holds a club and another has a rope around her neck. She is looking towards her child who is distressed and kicking towards a fifth man who has grabbed the child's arm].
Illustratin 6: "The poor white man, faint and weary, Came and sat under our tree. -" Park's Travel's in Africa.

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