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Illustration accompanies Poore's critical commentary on the consequences of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the manner in which fugitive slaves in northern states were returned to the South. Here, two armed authorities forcibly remove a black man from his home while a kneeling black child appears to beg for mercy.; A. Bobbett sc.; Illustration in Benjamin Perley Poore's Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis (Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, c1886), p. 454.

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Keywords

  1. Book Illustrations
  2. Capture & Imprisonment
  3. Engravings
  4. Fugitive Slave Law (1850)
  5. Fugitive Slaves
  6. Slaver
  7. United States

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