Courtesy of Library of Congress, Still, William, "A Bold Stroke for Freedom," 1872
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The 1872 illustration shows African Americans, likely fugitive slaves, with a wagon pointing guns at slave-catchers. The cartoon is thought to depict Christmas Eve of 1855, when patrollers caught up with a group of teenage enslaved people who had escaped by wagon from Loudon County, Virginia. But the posse was driven off when Ann Wood, leader of the group, brandished weapons and dared the pursuers to fire. The fugitives continued on to Philadelphia.
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Still, William, "A Bold Stroke for Freedom," 1872. Courtesy of Library of Congress