
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)