Engraving of The Year of Release is at Hand

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Engraving of 'The Year of Release is at Hand' by Timothy Stansfeld Engleheart, after Edward Henry Corbould. An enslaved family kneeling in front of a large piece of stone with the name 'Wilberforce' carved on it. There are broken chains and shackles lying next to them and a scroll with the words 'Emancipation' and the names of 'Clarkson', 'Suffield' and 'Buxton'. The illustration was used as the frontispiece to the book The Bow in the Cloud: Or, The Negro's Memorial ...