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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06477 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: circa 1830-1840 Pagination: 1 p. ; 35.6 x 26.7 cm. Order a Copy

Abolitionist broadside with six images depicting kidnapping, torture, auction, and labor of enslaved people. With Channing quotation, "Our laws know no higher crime than that of reducing a man to slavery. To steal or to buy an African on his own shores is a piracy." Lithograph drawings.

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