IRONY
William Hackwood and Wedgwood,

ANTI-SLAVERY MEDALLION, 1787,

JASPERWARE, STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND;

The Chipstone Foundation.
William Hackwood and Wedgwood,

ANTI-SLAVERY MEDALLION, 1787,

JASPERWARE, STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND;

The Chipstone Foundation.
William Hackwood designed this image in 1787 for Josiah Wedgwood. It became the most influential symbol for the abolitionist movement in the Atlantic World.
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Charles Ball,
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES,
p. 140, 1854; Google Books.
Charles Ball
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES,
p. 140, 1854; Google Books.
Born into slavery in 1780, Charles Ball became best known for his 1873 autobiography about his experiences as an enslaved and later self-emancipated Black man in the United States. In this passage, he recounts the abusive nature of overseers on tobacco plantations in the Chesapeake region.
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TOBACCO-PAPER FOR ARCHER'S BEST VIRGINIA IN

PETER STREET NEAR MOORFIELDS, 1750-1800,

engraving on paper; The British Museum
TOBACCO-PAPER FOR ARCHER'S BEST VIRGINIA IN

PETER STREET NEAR MOORFIELDS, 1750-1800,

engraving on paper; The British Museum.
In this London trade card for Archer, Tobacco and Snuff Seller, a Virginian overseer casually smokes tobacco while enslaved workers pack and seal barrels of tobacco, called hogsheads, for shipment to Great Britain.
Benjamin Henry Latrobe,
AN OVERSEER DOING HIS DUTY NEAR FREDRICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, CA. 1978,
watercolor and pen on paper, Maryland Historical Society.
photograph of a watercolor pen on paper, depicition of an overseer and enslaved women working
Benjamin Henry Latrobe,
AN OVERSEER DOING HIS DUTY NEAR

FREDRICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, CA. 1798,

watercolor and pen on paper; Maryland

Historical Society.

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, best know as the architect for the United States Capitol, painted this scene of an overseer standing above two enslaved women burning stumps and hoeing the earth to prepare a tobacco field near Fredricksburg, Virginia, in 1798.
FREEDOM
image of anti-slavery medallion
William Hackwood and Wedgewood,
ANTI-SLAVERY MEDALLION, 1787, JASPERWARE, STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND;
The Chipstone Foundation.
William Hackwood designed this image in 1787 for Josiah Wedgwood... . It became the most influential symbol for the abolitionist movement in the Atlantic World.
— Read More —
TOBACCO-PAPER FOR ARCHER'S BEST VIRGINIA IN PETER STREET NEAR MOORFIELDS, 1750-1800,
engraving on paper, The British Museum.
In this London trade card for Archer, Tobacco and Snuff Seller, a Virginian overseer... casually smokes tobacco while enslaved workers pack and seal barrels of tobacco, called hogsheads, for shipment to Great Britain.
— Read More —
Charles Ball,
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES,
p. 140, 1854; Google Books.
Born into slavery in 1780, Charles Ball became best known for his 1873 autobiography about his experiences as an enslaved... and later self-emancipated Black man in the United States. In this passage, he recounts the abusive nature of overseers on tobacco plantations in the Chesapeake region.
— Read More —
Benjamin Henry Latrobe,
AN OVERSEER DOING HIS DUTY NEAR FREDRICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, CA. 1798,
watercolor and pen on paper; Maryland Historical Society.
Benjamin Henry Latrobe, best know as the architect for the United States Capitol, painted this scene... of an overseer standing above two enslaved women burning stumps and hoeing the earth to prepare a tobacco field near Fredricksburg, Virginia, in 1798.
— Read More —