Auction at Richmond

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Title

Auction at Richmond

Subject

Slave trade, auction

Description

George Bourne declared that illustrations in his Picture of Slavery, first published in 1834, were accurate illustrations of slavery. A clergyman, Bourne became an abolitionist while serving a Presbyterian church in the Harrisonburg, Virginia, area. Eventually settling in New York, Bourne was a founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society and a contributor to the Liberator, the leading abolitionist newspaper edited by William Lloyd Garrison.

Creator

George Bourne

Source

The Picture of Slavery

Publisher

Boston

Date

1838

Contributor

Library of Virginia

Rights

Work is Public Domain; image from Library of Virginia

Format

Engraving

Identifier

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Citation

George Bourne, “Auction at Richmond,” To Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade, accessed December 4, 2024, https://virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/items/show/373.