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Hunting Runaway Slaves

Unattributed fullpage illustration by Hammatt Billings for The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children, edited by "D.W." Ten Illustrations. New York: Carlton & Porter, 1859. This illustration originally appeared in Uncle Tom's Cabin: Illustrated Edition (Boston: Jewett & Company, 1853); Billings drew it to represent Legree ordering a hunt for Cassy and Eliza. Sambo, Quimbo, Legree, unidentified slaves, dogs.