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TITLE: America / E.W.C.
CALL NUMBER: PGA - Clay--America (A size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-5950 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-89745 (b&w film copy neg.)
SUMMARY: An idealized portrayal of American slavery and the conditions of blacks under this system in 1841. The Library's impression of the print is a fragment--the left panel only--of a larger print entitled "Black and White Slavery," which contrasts the plight of Britain's abused "white slaves" (actually factory workers, portrayed in the right panel) and America's "contented" black slaves. Weitenkampf rightly suggests that prints like these were published by Northern apologists for slavery. The work of one such apologist, E. W. Clay, displays a consistent lack of sympathy for blacks. Here he shows an attractive and wealthy, slave-owning white family, including a husband, his wife, and their two children. The young daughter plays with a lean greyhound which stands before them. The son gestures toward an elderly black couple with a small child sitting at their feet. A group of happy slaves dance in the background. The old slave says, "God Bless you massa! you feed and clothe us. When we are sick you nurse us, and when too old to work, you provide for us!" The master vows piously, "These poor creatures are a sacred legacy from my ancestors and while a dollar is left me, nothing shall be spared to increase their comfort and happiness."
MEDIUM: 1 print on wove paper : lithograph with watercolor ; image 31 x 25.2 cm.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [New York] : Publ. by A. Donnelly, no. 19 1/2 Courtland St., N.Y. c1841.
CREATOR:
Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist.
RELATED NAMES:
Donnelly, Arthur, publisher.
NOTES:
Title from print.
"Entered ... 1841 by A. Donnelly..."
Weitenkampf, p. 70
Davison, no. 158
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1841-1.
TOPICS:
Great Britain.
Labor and trades, portrayed.
Plantations and planters.
Slaves and slavery.
FORMAT:
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g05950 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g05950
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b36116 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b36116
CONTROL #: 2003690759
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