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Printed verse: 'And from the pray’r of want and plaint of woe...'
Maker(s)
Printmaker:
Unknown
Author:
Beattie, James
An enslaved person, in profile to right, kneeling with hands clasped and chained. Captioned Heb.3.15 beneath, with printed excerpt from the Jamaica Royal Gazette, Oct. 7, 1826, titled 'PHOEBE' beneath (recto). Excerpt of a letter to the Editor from the Devizes Gazette, Sept. 10, 1825, titled 'Slavery in the British West Indies' on verso.
Maker(s)
Printmaker:
Unknown
Draughtsman:
Lines, Samuel
(Attrib.)
An enslaved woman seated on a rock beneath a palm tree looking down at her sick child
Maker(s)
Printmaker:
Unknown
Draughtsman:
Lines, Samuel
(Attrib.)
Slave-driver and enslaved mother and child, with caption below: 'The driver's whip unfolds its torturing coil./She only sulks -- go lash her to her toil.'
Maker(s)
Printmaker:
Unknown
Draughtsman:
Lines, Samuel
(Attrib.)
An enslaved person kneeling, chained, on a shoreline, a scythe laying beside them. A slave-drive and four enslave people in the distance. The caption below reads: ‘I would not have a Slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. We have no slaves at home—then why abroad? - Cowper’
Maker(s)
Printmaker:
Unknown
Draughtsman:
Lines, Samuel
(Attrib.)
Enslaved man, standing, hands clasp and eyes looking upwards in prayer, with caption below: ‘O my great massa in heaven, pity me, and bless my children!’
Maker(s)
Printmaker:
Unknown
Draughtsman:
Lines, Samuel
(Attrib.)
