The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol 1, nos. 1-12, Jan. to Dec+ Appendix

The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol 1, nos. 1-12, Jan. to Dec+ Appendix

American Anti-Slavery Society -- Periodicals.

Antislavery movements -- Periodicals.

First of only three volumes (1835-37) of the annual Anti-Slavery Record. Contains stories and woodcut pictures. Of particular interest is the account of the flogging of Amos Dresser who, as a means of raising funds for his education, sold anti-slavery literature in Nashville.
Another illustration, “The Desperation of a Mother," shows a young mother killing her two infant children with an axe rather than letting them be taken from her by a slave-trader. The mother then killed herself. This incident would later serve as a theme for Toni Morrison's work of fiction Beloved, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize.

[American Anti-Slavery Society]

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New York: Published by R. G. Williams for the American Anti-Slavery Society

1835