The Desperation of a Mother
| Unsigned illustration for The Anti-Slavery Record, Vol. I, No. 9 (September; New York: Published by R. G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1835) Caption: "'Why do you narrate the extraordinary cases of cruelty? These stories will not convert the cruel, and they wound the feelings of masters who are not so.' REPLY: Cruelty is the fruit of the system." Alderman Library, University of Virginia. |