(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) JOHNSON DAVID CLAYPOOL The House tha

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) JOHNSON, DAVID CLAYPOOL. The House that Jeff Built. Engraving 11 x 14-1/2 inches (image size) with 12 vignettes paralleling the children's rhyme 'The House that Jack Built.' Some wear, and spotting (lighter rather than darker.) Massachusetts: D.C. Johnson, 1863

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'These are the shackles for the slaves that suppose/ Their limbs are their own from head to toes/ and are prone to believe, say all that you can/ That they shouldn't be sold by that thing called a man. . . .' The vignettes:1. the "House," showing the door to a slave pen; 2. bales of cotton, "By rebels call'd king;" 3. slaves at work picking cotton, "field-chattels that made cotton king;" 4. slave families despondently awaiting auction; 5. slave auctioneer, "the thing by some call'd a man;" 6. slave shackles etc etc." A copy is in the Library of Congress Collection of Prints.