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(REASON, PATRICK.) The Fountain for Every Day in the Year. Edited by Lydia Child. Stipple-engraved frontispiece of a kneeling slave by
(REASON, PATRICK.) The Fountain for Every Day in the Year. Edited by Lydia Child. Stipple-engraved frontispiece of a kneeling slave by African-American engraver Patrick Henry Reason. 24mo, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, front joint just starting, lightly rubbed with some slight loss of cloth. New York: R. G. Williams, 1836
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Notes: second edition, published the same year as the first. Reason (1816-1898) was an engraver, abolitionist, and leader of a fraternal order. His name did not appear on his first published work, the frontispiece for Charles C. Andrews's History of the New York African Free Schools, which Reason executed at the age of 14.
At the age of 19 he created his famous engraving for The Fountain, which shows a kneeling slave with the caption, "by Patrick Reason, a Colored Young Man of the City of New York." The image was used widely by abolitionists on letterhead and tokens, but with a new caption, "Am I not a Woman and a Sister?" The image itself is a variation of the seal designed by Josiah Wedgewood in 1787 for the English Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. OCLC locating only the Brown University copy; Schomburg with a copy of the second edition published for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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