Slave hiding in a tree, trapped by armed whites on horseback; dogs surrounding tree. Illustration aken from p. 265 of an unidentifed publication, probably an abolitionist tract.

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-56053; original source not identified.

English

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

NW0199

North America

"Fugitive Slave Trapped, U.S. South, 19th cent.", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed January 23, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1293