Abolitionist Pillows

Frederick Douglass

With this image, we celebrate American writer and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

"Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages."

From an engraving Illustrated London News 1865 dated April 8th. A day later General Lee surrendered to grant, and 6 days later Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth All the images I am uploading to this profile are no longer under copyright. My aim is to make available in a variety of forms these wonderful images from Victorian & Edwardian days from great publications like the Illustrated London News, the Graphic, Punch & other periodicals or books of the time. Please note with regard to scanned antique prints there may be some age related marks or faults from the originals which will show also on any print ordered. This is inevitable with prints of this age & actually lends an authentic look to the prints. Please refer...

Frederick Douglass

Ink portrait of FREDERICK DOUGLASS quoting himself created in year 2022.

This design graphically elaborates a famous quote by FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Image created by LAUTIR in year 2022.

Then, now, and into the far future! We fight like John Brown for our friends and neighbors.

This design graphically elaborates a famous quote by FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Image created by LAUTIR in year 2022.

This design graphically elaborates a famous quote by FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Image created by LAUTIR in year 2022.

This design graphically elaborates a famous quote by FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Image created by LAUTIR in year 2022.

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 or February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.

We can rebuild him, we have the technology...

Sheldon Peck (August 26, 1797 - March 19, 1869) was an American folk artist, abolitionist, and social activist as well as an advocate for temperance, women’s rights, racial equality, public education, and pacifism. Peck’s portraiture – with its distinctive style — is a prime example of 19th century American folk art. While working as an artist, Peck was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Osborne Perry Anderson was one of the five African American men to accompany John Brown in the raid on the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) in October 1859. Anderson was a free-born black abolitionist, born in West Fallow Field, Pennsylvania on July 27, 1830. Along with John Anthony Copeland Jr., another member of the Brown raiding party, Anderson attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He later moved to Chatham, Canada, where he worked as a printer for Mary Ann Shadd's newspaper, the Provincial Freeman. In 1858 Anderson met John Brown and eventually became persuaded to join his band of men determined to attack Harpers Ferry. One year after meeting John Brown, on October 16, 1859 Anderson took par...

This design graphically elaborates a famous quote by FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Image created by LAUTIR in year 2022.

Christiana Carteaux Bannister (1819–1902) was a business entrepreneur, hairdresser, and abolitionist in New England. She was known professionally as Madame Carteaux. Christiana Carteaux Bannister was born Christiana Babcock in 1819 in North Kingston, Rhode Island. She was born to African American and Narragansett Indian parents. She was a descendant of enslaved Africans who worked the plantations of South County, Rhode Island, during the eighteenth century. As a young woman, she moved to Boston where she worked as a wigmaker and hairdresser. In Boston, the Bannisters lived and worked with Lewis Hayden and participated in the Boston Underground Railroad. The Bannister hair salons became popular meeting places for African American an...

Ink portrait of FREDERICK DOUGLASS quoting himself created in year 2022.

This design graphically elaborates a famous quote by FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Image created by LAUTIR in year 2022.

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 or February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 or February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.

This African American history design shows custom art with abolitionist quote. Ideal black history gift for black and educated melanin queen or black king with african heritage or black pride who remembers their roots.

Charles Lenox Remond (February 1, 1810 – December 22, 1873) was an American orator, activist and abolitionist based in Massachusetts. He lectured against slavery across the Northeast, and in the British Isles on an 1840 tour with William Lloyd Garrison. During the American Civil War, he recruited blacks for the United States Colored Troops, helping staff the first two units sent from Massachusetts. From a large family of African-American entrepreneurs, he was the brother of Sarah Parker Remond, also a lecturer against slavery. In 1838, the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society chose him as one of its agents. As a delegate from the American Anti-Slavery Society, in 1840 he traveled with William Lloyd Garrison, a leading American abolition...

Ink portrait of FREDERICK DOUGLASS quoting himself created in year 2022.

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 or February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.

The Revolution of our time will be made from the bottom up— or it will not be made at all.

James Mott (20 June 1788 – 26 January 1868) was a Quaker leader, teacher, and merchant as well as an anti-slavery activist. He was born in Cowneck in North Hempstead on Long Island, to a Quaker family. James taught for two years at the Nine Partners Boarding School in Millbrook, New York where his father was the superintendent. At Nine Partners, he also met his future wife Lucretia Coffin, a student and later a teacher's aide. He married Lucretia Coffin Mott on 10 April 1811 in Philadelphia. They had six children, five of whom lived to adulthood, four daughters and a son. James then began work as a partner in Lucretia's father's nail business in Philadelphia. In 1822, James became a textile merchant dealing in cotton. His Hicksite Quaker...

Frederick Douglass

Social Justice Owl

This design graphically elaborates a famous quote by FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Image created by LAUTIR in year 2022.

This design graphically elaborates a famous quote by FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Image created by LAUTIR in year 2022.

Ink portrait of FREDERICK DOUGLASS quoting himself created in year 2022.

Frederick Douglass

This design graphically elaborates a famous quote by FREDERICK DOUGLASS. It was created in year 2022.

Henry Highland Garnet (December 23, 1815 – February 13, 1882) was an African-American abolitionist, minister, educator and orator. Having escaped with his family as a child from slavery in Maryland, he grew up in New York City. He was educated at the African Free School and other institutions, and became an advocate of militant abolitionism. He became a minister and based his drive for abolitionism in religion. Garnet was a prominent member of the movement that led beyond moral suasion toward more political action. Renowned for his skills as a public speaker, he urged black Americans to take action and claim their own destinies. For a period, he supported emigration of American free blacks to Mexico, Liberia, or the West Indies, but t...

Lucretia Coffin Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer. She helped write the Declaration of Sentiments during the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. Lucretia Coffin was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, the second child of eight by Anna Folger and Thomas Coffin. Through her mother she was a descendent of Peter Foulger and Mary Morrill. This ancestry links her to, among many other notable early Americans, Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. At the age of thirteen, she was sent to the Nine Partners School in what is now Millbrook, Dutchess County, New York, which was run by the Society of Friends. There she became a teacher after graduation. Her interest i...