Bookmark
- Object Name:
- Bookmark
- Object ID:
- 1996.510.01
- Date:
- circa 1861
- Description:
- Bookmark. Green ribbon with embroidered center section of an African American kneeling on the ground in chains with "Pity me" embroidered above. "Willis" printed name on paper label affixed to back of bookmark. "Pity me, and pardon me, O virtuous reader! You never knew what it is to be a slave…" quoted from Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," 1861.
- Material:
- Silk
Embroidery thread - Dimensions:
- W-2.1 L-8.1 inches
- Provenance:
- Probably given by Mary Fernald Willis or her sisters, Edith F. Giberson and Ruth F. Holst, who settled her estate.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Slaves, Slavery, Ribbons, Bookmarks, African Americans
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