Many white abolitionist authors wrote about the slave trade, more specifically the slaves themsevles. These authors wrote on what they believe was how many black slaves actually felt. Not only that, but also the extent of the treatment they received from white owners. While many of these accounts were accurate to reality, they all missed one specific aspect: sincerity. These authors that wrote on slavery were never slaves themselves, thus the power behind these works of art were diminished by the fact that the authors never endured the true brutality of slavery.
Bahama Banks, 1767. Thus God speaketh once, yea, twice, yet Man perceiveth it not. In a dream in a Vision of the Night, when deep sleep falleth upon Men in slumbrings upon the Bed; Then he openeth the Ears of Men, & sealeth their instruction. Job Ch.33.Ver 14.15.16.& 29 & 30 From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, published in 1794. Illustration between pages 204 and 205. Wreck of the sloop Nancyupon the Bahama Banks in 1767....
"An earlier, non-retouched print of the Berliner Freien (Free ones) by Friedrich Engels, 1842. Engels draw this sketch in one of the meetings of German Young Hegelians in which he attended to. People depicted in picture, from left to right are: Arnold Ruge, Ludwig Bühl, Carl Nauwerck, Bruno Bauer, Otto Wigand, Edgar Bauer, Max Stirner, Eduard Meyen, Karl Friedrich Köppen. Possibly squirrel on the left is a satire of Friedrich Eichhorn, sometimes depicted as a squirrel because of the equivalent word in German (Eichhörnchen), for an example of this see Der...
"A large sheep with the head of a man perches on the knees of a young woman, while a horned ram with the head of a man looks on. "Mrs N... and her pet L..." Refers to the affair of Caroline Norton and William Lambe. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1835/45."
