(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) John Brown Meeting the Slave Mother

Sale 2241 - Lot 261

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) John Brown, Meeting the Slave Mother and her Child on the Steps of Charlestown Jail on his Way to Execution. Hand-colored lithograph, 13 x 9 inches; minor edge wear, a bit of dampstaining, short closed tear in caption area. New York: Currier & Ives, 1863

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This is the John Brown you're thinking of. A powerful piece of abolitionist propaganda. According to the caption, Brown "stooped and kissed the child, then met his fate." A surly guard prepares to shove the woman and her child aside as Brown looks upon them sadly. "That no such incident could have happened did not at all lessen the effect that the picture produced in the North"--Shaw, Abraham Lincoln, page 242. After a painting by Louis Ransom. Peters, Currier & Ives, 1722 and page 101; Reilly 1863-2.