{"id":2312,"date":"2020-07-02T02:18:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T02:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2020-08-01T18:30:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T18:30:44","slug":"illustrations-of-enslaved-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/illustrations-of-enslaved-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrations of Enslaved Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have collected here a variety of contemporary and modern images depicting resistance by enslaved African Americans as the resisted slavery or recapture.\u00a0 Publication dates are in parentheses on the right.<\/p>\n

1831 || Nat Turner’s Revolt in Virginia\u00a0<\/strong>(1831)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
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Depiction of Nat Turner Rebellion published in 1831; artist unknown (Library of Congress)<\/p><\/div>\n

1850 || Broadside Against Fugitive Slave Law\u00a0(1850)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
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Popular illustration attacking cruelty of Fugitive Slave Law in 1850;\u00a0 Created by Theodor Kaufmann \/\/ Library of Congress<\/p><\/div>\n

1851\u00a0 ||\u00a0 Christiana (PA) Riot <\/strong>(1872)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
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Engraving published in William Still, The Underground Railroad in 1872 that shows the events of the Christiana riots where a shootout occurred between hunters and a dozen black men who were protecting the runaways.<\/p><\/div>\n

1853 || Freedom Seekers Cornered in Maryland Barn <\/strong>(1872)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
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Runaways heading toward Gettysburg, PA get into a shootout with white men in a Maryland barn, Illustration and details in William Still’s The Underground Rail Road (1872) \/\/ <\/em>House Divided Project<\/p><\/div>\n

1855\u00a0 ||\u00a0 Resistance in Maryland <\/strong>(1872)<\/em><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Five out of six Virginia runaways successfully escaped after resisting attempts at recapture in 1855;\u00a0 from William Still’s The Underground Rail Road (1872).\u00a0 Engraving by Charles Reed. (House Divided Project)<\/em><\/p>\n

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1859 || Doy Party Capture in Kansas Territory (1862)<\/em><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Missouri slave catchers ambushed a group of runaways escorted by Dr. John Doy (an ally of John Brown’s) in 1859. (Illustration from Le Tour du Monde (1862) HathiTrust)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1860\u00a0 || A Battle on the Chesapeake Bay <\/strong>(1872)<\/em><\/h2>\n
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Runaways fight off recapture on the Chespeake Bay in1860; Engraving by John Osler in William Still’s The Underground Railroad\u00a0<\/em>(1872) \/\/ House Divided Project<\/p><\/div>\n

1861\u00a0 ||\u00a0 Battling the Hunters\u00a0(1861)<\/em><\/h2>\n
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“The Hunted Slaves,” an 1861 painting by British artist Richard Ansdell (Google Arts and Culture)<\/p><\/div>\n

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We have collected here a variety of contemporary and modern images depicting resistance by enslaved African Americans as the resisted slavery or recapture.\u00a0 Publication dates are in parentheses on the right. 1831 || Nat Turner’s Revolt in Virginia\u00a0(1831) 1850 || Broadside Against Fugitive Slave Law\u00a0(1850) 1851\u00a0 ||\u00a0 Christiana (PA) Riot (1872) 1853 || Freedom Seekers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20770],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}