![]() ![]() ![]() The image shown here is from the copy in the Library Company of Philadelphia (see also Library of Congress photo, LC-USZ62-30833) however, the image is not found in all copies of this book (for example, it is absent in the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia Library copies). One of these works is The Slave's Friend (New York: Anti-slavery Office, 1836), an abolitionist pamphlet designed for children. ![]() This woodcut was later published in various 19th century abolitionist works, without identifying the Liberator as the original source and without any explanation of the illustration. It accompanied a brief article on Brazil which describes how sickly captive Africans were thrown overboard alive in the port of Rio so that slave captains, knowing they could not be sold, would avoid paying import duties on them. 2) and appeared in several later issues in that year. This woodcut was originally published in The Liberator, the American abolitionist newspaper, 7 January 1832 (vol. ![]()
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