Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for aiding slaves to escape from bondage
Subtitle: with an appendix, containing a sketch of his life.
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885.
Publisher: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office
Published: 1846
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Walker, Jonathan, 1799-1878 -- Trials, litigation, etc; Trials (Kidnapping) -- Florida -- Pensacola; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; Antislavery movements -- United States; Fugitive slaves -- Florida
Other titles: Branded hand
Description: "1 woodcut from a daguerreotype of Walker's hand inset into title page. 1 steel engraving of Walker, by J. Andrews, both [produced] by Southworth and Hawes Studio, Boston. ... early example of a daguerreotype used to comment journalistically and now seen as graphically striking as well. Southworth and Hawes were later to work enthusiastically with engravers and created a special lens for such work."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 10
Notes: Preface signed: Maria Weston Chapman.