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Perilous escape of Eliza and child

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Strong, Thomas W

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Print of a scene from Stowe's popular, anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," originally published in 1851. Depicts the character Eliza, an African American woman freedom seeker, escaping from Kentucky to Ohio across the icy Ohio River. Eliza, depicted barefoot and with a light skin tone, clutches her son Harry to her breast and straddles two blocks of ice as she looks behind her at the irate white man enslaver on the shore near the tavern from which she has fled.; Title from item.; Stong was a prolific New York mid 19th-century lithographer, wood engraver, and publisher who mainly published stock prints.

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Keywords

  1. Abolition Movement
  2. African American Boys
  3. African American Mothers
  4. African American Women
  5. African Americans
  6. African Americans In Literature
  7. Anti Slavery Prints
  8. Capture & Imprisonment
  9. Eliza
  10. Escapes
  11. Fugitive Slaves
  12. Hand Colored
  13. Ice Floes
  14. Lithographs
  15. Ohio
  16. Racially Mixed People
  17. Slaver
  18. Slavery
  19. Slaves
  20. United States
  21. Women

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