“The Negro in His Own Country”

Item

Title

“The Negro in His Own Country”

Creator

Josiah Priest

Contributor

Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Date

1853

Description

Illustration entitled "The Negro in His Own Country" from Josiah Priest's Bible Defence of Slavery (1853). Depicts a shirtless Black man sitting on a rock and holding a spear. A human skeleton and palm trees are in the background.

Format

Still image

Identifier

https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/kKXfAAAAMAAJ

Language

en English

Rights

Public domain

Source

Josiah Priest, Bible Defence of Slavery: Or, The Origin, History, and Fortunes of the Negro Race... (W. S. Brown, 1853).

Item sets

Site pages

Image of a Black man with a spear on a rock, and a separate image with a Black family sitting in a parlorIn his own country