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A free black man who has been kidnapped is auctioned before a crowd of white bidders. A small black child sits on the auction block. In the background, other kidnapped free blacks wait to be sold into slavery. A building marked "JAIL" is visible in the distant background.; Illustration in the American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1839 (New York: Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838), p. 7.

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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Anti Slavery Prints
  3. Book Illustrations
  4. Capture & Imprisonment
  5. Free African Americans
  6. Slave Trade
  7. Slaver
  8. United States
  9. Woodcuts

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