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

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

Anti-Slavery, Abolition movement, Broadsides, Woodcuts.

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 trample under feet." On either side of the image are quotations from Scripture condemning the evils of slavery. The main text is a manifesto, dated December 6, 1833, advocating the formation of a national anti-slavery society and enumerating its goals. It includes the names of delegates to the convention from ten states.

Gilbert, Reuben S.

URL: https://www.loc.gov/item/2008661764/

American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1833-15.

December 4, 1833

1 print : woodcut with letterpress and type ornaments on wove papers ; 10 x 16 cm.

English

1 print : woodcut with letterpress and type ornaments on wove papers.