File:Our Countrymen in Chains.jpg
Summary
Broadside publication of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier" class="extiw" title="en:John Greenleaf Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a>'s poem Our Countrymen in Chains. The design was originally adopted as the seal of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Society_for_the_Abolition_of_Slavery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Society for the Abolition of Slavery (page does not exist)">Society for the Abolition of Slavery</a> in England in the 1780s, and appeared on several medallions for the society made by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Josiah Wedgwood">Josiah Wedgwood</a> as early as <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/1787" class="mw-redirect" title="1787">1787</a>. Here, in addition to Whittier's poem, the appeal to conscience against slavery continues with two further quotes. The first is the scriptural warning, "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. "<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Exodus" class="mw-redirect" title="Exodus">Exod</a>[us] XXI, 16." Next the claim, "England has 800,000 Slaves, and she has made them free. America has 2,250,000! and she holds them fast!!!!" The broadside is advertised at "Price Two Cents Single; or $1.00 per hundred.
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| current | 16:16, 4 January 2017 | | 821 × 1,244 (383 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>Broadside publication of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier" class="extiw" title="en:John Greenleaf Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a>'s poem <i>Our Countrymen in Chains</i>. The design was originally adopted as the seal of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Society_for_the_Abolition_of_Slavery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Society for the Abolition of Slavery (page does not exist)">Society for the Abolition of Slavery</a> in England in the 1780s, and appeared on several medallions for the society made by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Josiah Wedgwood">Josiah Wedgwood</a> as early as <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/1787" class="mw-redirect" title="1787">1787</a>. Here, in addition to Whittier's poem, the appeal to conscience against slavery continues with two further quotes. The first is the scriptural warning, "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. "<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Exodus" class="mw-redirect" title="Exodus">Exod</a>[us] XXI, 16." Next the claim, "England has 800,000 Slaves, and she has made them free. America has 2,250,000! and she holds them fast!!!!" The broadside is advertised at "Price Two Cents Single; or $1.00 per hundred. </p> |
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