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Am I not a man and a brother?

The large, bold woodcut image of a supplicant male slave in chains appears on the 1837 broadside publication of John Greenleaf Whittier's antislavery poem, "Our Countrymen in Chains." The design was originally adopted as the seal of the Society for…

Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention. Assembled in Philadelphia, December 4, 1833.

The broadside declaration is illustrated with a headpiece of Hercules strangling the Nemean lion as two astonished elders look on. Beneath the woodcut is the line, "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou…

American Colonization Society to James Madison. Membership Certificate

A certificate verifying that James Madison is a member for life of the American Colonization Society