[LEEDS ANTI SLAVERY SOCIETY] Group of three Anti slavery eng

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[LEEDS ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.] Group of three Anti-slavery engravings issued by the Leeds Anti-Slavery tract series. 10x8 inches. Clean, bright images. Np [England], circa 1840s

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Two have captions, one with considerable text. All show dramatic scenes of the abuses of slavery.
"The driver's whip unfolds its torturing coil"; a woman being beaten while a gentleman comes to her rescue an African woman, in chains, kneels near a shore, with a hoe lying beside her. The caption, a poem by Cowper, reads in part "I would not have a slave to till my ground . . ."
The Leeds Anti-Slavery Society was the most active generator of anti-Slavery tracts and broadsides during the period of the late 1830s-50s.