Fugitive Slaves and Bloodhounds, U.S. South, 1850s
Description
Comments on the use of bloodhounds to track fugitive slaves are given on pp. 292-93 of this abolitionist book. This illustration seems to be based on an illustration in Henry Bibb, Narrative of the Life and Adventures of . . . an American Slave (New York, 1849), p. 129.
Source
Anon., The Suppressed Book About Slavery! Prepared for Publication in 1857 (New York, 1864), facing p. 241
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
NW0198
Spatial Coverage
North America
Citation
"Fugitive Slaves and Bloodhounds, U.S. South, 1850s", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed January 26, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1292