Prints: Boston, Ma.: Places or Streets, C-D
GUSN-198810
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The image depicts the Boston Court House and the surrounding buildings during a trial regarding a fugitive from slavery. The front and side of the Boston Court House, with a tailor store on the far left, can be seen.
exterior views
courthouses
municipal buildings
trials
slavery
abolitionists
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection number PR327
1 engraving on newsprint
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1959
GC002.01.MA.3700.004
Gift
8 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Worcester & Co. (Engraver)
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Antislavery movements
Enslaved person
African American men
African Americans
Court Street (Boston, Mass.)
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
Has some stains with folds and tears in the margin.
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Places or Streets, C-D
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