To Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade

Dublin Core

Title

To Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade

Date

October 27, 2014-May 30, 2015

Contributor

Maurie D. McInnis, Guest Curator, and LVA staff

Collection Items

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Uncle Tom's Cabin (title page)

Poor Tom! ("Uncle Tom's Cabin")

Uncle Tom's Cabin, No. 2: The Slave Mother

Uncle Tom's Cabin Playing Cards

Classics Illustrated. Uncle Tom's Cabin

Plan of an African Ship's lower Desk
This diagram of the slave ship “Brooks,” first published in 1788, became the most widely known and influential image used by abolitionist campaigners. It was redrawn and republished many times in Britain and America in the decades that followed. It…

Restraints
Thomas Clarkson was a dedicated abolitionist whose publications on the slave trade helped to raise awareness of the horrors of slavery and the Middle Passage. In his description of this image, Clarkson explained that he purchased these items in a…

Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship
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