Anti-Slavery Almanac 1840: Slavery's Horrors Illustrated

Historic compilation page from the American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1840, featuring powerful illustrations documenting slavery's brutal realities. This abolitionist publication used graphic imagery to expose the violence and cruelty of slavery to Northern audiences. The illustrations depict scenes of horrific violence: slave auctions and family separations, whippings and beatings, enslaved people being hunted with dogs, children torn from mothers, branding scenes, and the daily terror of plantation life. The top panel shows "Our Peculiar Domestic Institutions" with multiple scenes of abuse, while smaller vignettes illustrate specific atrocities including "Selling a Mother from her Child," "Hunting Slaves with dogs and guns," and "A Woman chained to a Girl, and a Man in irons at work in the field." These illustrations were crucial abolitionist propaganda, making slavery's horrors visible to those who had never witnessed them. Essential historical documentation of both slavery and the abolitionist movement, available in three sizes with your choice of black or silver aluminum frame.