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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 Tom trying to comfort Lucy on the steamboat. Tom, Lucy.