Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Grand celebration ob de bobalition ob African slabery / drawn & engd. by I. Harris
Call Number
E-North 38/GC024/19th-Century American Caricatures/Normal/19th c./Caricatures GA 2024.03015
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcks65hr391
Publisher
London : Published by W. H. Isaacs, 68 St. James Bazaar, [183-]
Language
English
Date Created
1831-1834
Extent
1 print : hand-colored aquatint ; plate mark 22.4 x 27.2 cm, on sheet 28.2 x 35.8 cm
Content Warning
Unspecified
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Princeton copy 1 Mounted in mat 36 x 49 cm
Racist caricature about free African Americans' celebratory response to the abolition of the African slave trade by the United States. Depicts a group of well-dressed men sitting and standing and drinking, smoking, and making toasts around a large dinner table. Contains eight speech bubbles within image.
From series satirizing the perceived pretensions of Philadelphia's early 19th-century middle-class free black population. They derive from Edward W. Clay's "Life in Philadelphia," of 1828-1830

Discovery Information

Subject
African Americans—Caricatures and cartoons
United States—Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves 1808
Philadelphia (Pa.)—Social life and customs—19th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
3

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f1ee8f58-8513-458a-be1d-62dc4f31f145/manifest