Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Hardcover. As New. Brick red cloth boards, color illustrated dust jacket. [vii] 268 pp. 12 color plates. In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings. This book uses Crowe's paintings to explore the texture of the slave trade in Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans. (Inventory #: 130505)