"Kidnapping"

Dublin Core

Title

"Kidnapping"

Subject

Slaves--United States.
Slavery--United States.
Abduction.

Description

Engraving depicting abduction of free African American woman by slaveholders.

Creator

Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834.

Source

A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States / By Jesse Torrey.

Publisher

Philadelphia: Published by the author. ([Philadelphia] John Bioren, printer.)

Date Created

1817.

Format

image

Extent

1 engraving, bound.

Language

English.

Type

still image

Identifier

1.Mu.372., plate facing p. 48.

Bibliographic Citation

A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States / By Jesse Torrey. Philadelphia: Published by the author. ([Philadelphia] John Bioren, printer.) 1817.

Provenance

Purchased for the Boston Medical Library through the Billings Fund from A. Gould, 1947 Jan. 2.

Files

0004292_ref.jpg

Citation

Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834., “"Kidnapping",” OnView, accessed April 19, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/18001.