[A Family Torn Apart]
| Illustration for July—Seventh Month, The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838, N. Southard, Editor (Boston: Published by Isaac Knapp, Vol. I, No. 3). Caption: "Consider the desolation which would be brought upon your family, if the head of it should be taken away. The slaves suffer, in such cases, far more than we, for they have few pleasures except those they derive from their companions in wo." Courtesy The John Hay Library, Brown University. |