Sujet

Illustration

Légende

A somewhat comic yet sympathetic portrayal of the culminating episode in the flight of slave Henry Brown 'who escaped from Richmond Va. in a Box 3 feet long, 2-1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft. wide.' In the office of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, the young Brown emerges from a crate as several figures, including Frederick Douglass (holding a claw hammer at left) look on. Details of Brown's escape, whereby he had himself shipped via Adams Express from Richmond to Philadelphia, were widely publicized in a narrative of his ordeal published under his own name in 1849. The box itself became an abolitionist metaphor for the inhumanity and spiritual suffocation of slavery.

Date

12 mars 2011

Crédit

Photo12/UIG/HUM Images

Notre référence

UMG22A57_419

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

65,0Mo (3,1Mo) / 48,2cm x 33,8cm / 5688 x 3994 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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