(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) [Paton Noel; artist] [Bond and Free

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [Paton, Noel; artist.] [Bond and Free, Five Sketches Illustrative of Slavery.] 5 albumen photographs, each about 7 x 8 1/2 inches, mounted on each side of 3 loose album leaves, 9 1/2 x 12 inches (with an unrelated London street view mounted on the final blank); moderate foxing. [Glasgow, Scotland]: [McClure & MacDonald, 1863]

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A series of photographs of abolitionist artwork done between 1857 and 1863 by British painter J. Noel Paton (1821-1901). They include an allegorical scene of Jesus speaking up for a group of slaves, a slave market, slaves being rescued from the hold of a ship by British seamen, a family being captured by slave hunters, and freedmen gathered around a book on an idyllic patio. These photographs were originally issued loose in a portfolio with printed covers, but the present examples seem to have been liberated from a scrapbook and are lacking the portfolio. The images are described at length in William Tair Ross's 1881 book "Waifs: A Handful of Essays and Sketches," pages 166-9.