Cartoon on the abolition of slavery in England, Gottfried Engelmann, 1833 French cartoon on the abolition of slavery in England. John Bull gives a slave to a slave to freedom while holding his own English wife on the line. According to the caption, the woman is publicly offered for sale. This refers to the English use of 'Wife Selling'. Because divorce in England until 1857 was virtually impossible and expensive, it happened in poorer circles that the woman was literally sold to end the marriage. In the background, the abolition of slavery is celebrated while at the same time a woman is sold.
Cartoon on the abolition of slavery in England, Gottfried Engelmann, 1833 French cartoon on the abolition of slavery in England. John Bull gives a slave to a slave to freedom while holding his own English wife on the line. According to the caption, the woman is publicly offered for sale. This refers to the English use of 'Wife Selling'. Because divorce in England until 1857 was virtually impossible and expensive, it happened in poorer circles that the woman was literally sold to end the marriage. In the background, the abolition of slavery is celebrated while at the same time a woman is sold. Following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. France paper abolition of slavery, fighting slavery. liberation (of an enslaved person). dominating husband. personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, slaveholder ~ enslaved person. slavery; serfs and the enslaved. political caricatures and satires England
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