Abolition of Slavery, The Fruits of Amalgamation
Abolition of Slavery, The Fruits of Amalgamation, lithograph, 1839, by Lewis and Co. after Edward Williams Clay. a front room in which the usual positions of black and white power have been reversed, the picture on the wall shows William Lloyd Garrison, who is entering the room with a black wife, the central figure reclines on a sofa smoking reading a copy of "The Emancipator. ", 435 x 335 mm including frame. Minor tears at the bottom, very fine. £Sold
Published by Lewis and Co. at their Cheap Music Warehouse. This is a close copy of a print published by J. Childs in New York the same year.
The Clay print was one of a series of anti-abolition caricatures.
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