CSPAN2 Book TV January 28, 2013
An event he was in many ways unprepared for. He wandered down to richmond, virginias slave auction rooms, and there beheld an auction of humans for the first time, and he became captivated by this subject and painted a number of images and published a number of drawings in the illustrated london news in order to help raise awareness about american slavery. Host was he an abolitionist . Guest i suspect when he first came to america he was aware of the Antislavery Movement and would have described himself as being opposed to slavery. But after coming here and witnessing american slavery and witn...