Liberty Bell illustration · SJSU Student Experiences Before Two Major Historical Crises

Title: Liberty Bell illustration
Rights: Public Domain
Type: Illustration
Date: June, 1835
Description: Illustration accompanying the brief story of the Liberty Bell in The Slave's Friend, an American Anti-Slavery Society publication intended to inculcate Abolitionism in children.
Language: English
Publisher: The Slave's Friend, June (?) 1835, number 2, p. 8-9.; American Anti-Slavery Society
text: "If you have ever been in the city of Philadelphia, you have, I suppose, seen the old State House in Chestnut Street. In this building is Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed. In the tower is a famous bell. It weighs 2300 pounds. It was rung when the Declaration was read in the State-house yard in 1776. It has been rung every year since on Washington’s birth day, 22d Feb., and on the 4th of July. When the bell was made, the following words were put upon it, and they are there now: “PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND, AND TO ALL INHABITANTS THEREOF." But the people will not mind the bell, for liberty is not proclaimed to all the inhabitants of the land. The poor slaves are inhabitants, and they have no liberty. But they will have it. That Liberty Bell may proclaim it. O, that I may live to see that day!"