"Seize him! Seize him!" cartoon
Item
Title
"Seize him! Seize him!" cartoon
Creator
Mary Hallock Foote and William H. Burridge
Contributor
Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library
Date
1862
Description
Political cartoon depicting northern states being used by the South to recapture enslaved people who had runaway. Antislavery northerners used cartoons like this one to criticize the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. In the cartoon, a white man points at Black men across the Canadian border, yelling "Seize him! Seize him!." Dogs wearing collars inscribed with "Ohio" and "Indiana" pursue the Black figures on command. Engraved by William H. Burridge from an illustration by Mary Hallock Foote.
Format
Still image
Identifier
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-e87a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Rights
Free to use without restriction
Source
Mary Hallock Foote (illustrator) and William H. Burridge (engraver), "Seize Him! Seize Him!," Engraving, 1862, Slavery in South Carolina and the ex-slaves: or, The Port Royal Mission. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-e87a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
