ANTI-SLAVERY PICNIC AT WEYMOUTH LANDING, MASSACHUSETTS
ANTI-SLAVERY PICNIC AT WEYMOUTH LANDING, MASSACHUSETTS, 1840-50, by Susan Torrey Merritt, American watercolor painting. This depiction of an abolitionist picnic in a hilly park is painted in a naive style and loaded with specific details of peoples costumes. Several women are wearing bloomers, probably quite acceptable in the reformist milieu of greater Boston. In the foreground are two African American men in discussion
Picture No
13125340
Media ID
45374928
Size
3000px x 2162px
(2.0MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Courtesy Everett Collection
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