Samuel Worcester Rowse was an American artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

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Works

His more famous works, mostly drawings in black and white, and in crayon, include:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century...
  
   (the drawing here)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials...
  
  
• Arthur Hugh Clough
  Arthur Hugh Clough
  Arthur Hugh Clough was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale...
  
  
• Henry David Thoreau
  Henry David Thoreau
  Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist...
  
  
• Fanny Appleton Longfellow
• Howard Dwight

Annie Adams Fields

Annie Adams Fields

Annie Adams Fields was a United States writer.- 1834 -1881 :Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was the second wife of the publisher and author James Thomas Fields, whom she married in 1854, and with whom she encouraged up and coming writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Freeman, and Emma Lazarus...

, wife of Boston publisher James Thomas Fields

James Thomas Fields

James Thomas Fields was an American publisher, editor, and poet.-Early life and family:He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on December 31, 1817 and named James Field; the family later added the "s". His father was a sea captain and died before Fields was three...

, sat for a black crayon drawing by Rowse and noted the artist as "eccentric but true and interesting".

Copies of his lithograph of The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia were used by anti-slavery activists prior to and during the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 (1861-1865) to raise funds for the Underground Railroad

Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists,...

 and other anti-slavery campaigns. Henry Brown

Henry Box Brown

Henry "Box" Brown was a 19th century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom by arranging to have himself mailed to Philadelphia abolitionists in a wooden crate...

, a slave

Slavery

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, had escaped from Richmond, Virginia

Richmond, Virginia

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 in 1849 by having himself shipped overland express to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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 in a small box, where he was received by Reverend James Miller McKim

James Miller McKim

James Miller McKim was a Presbyterian minister and abolitionist. He was also the father of the architect Charles Follen McKim....

 and other members of the Anti-Slavery Society

Anti-Slavery Society

The Anti-Slavery Society or A.S.S. was the everyday name of two different British organizations.The first was founded in 1823 and was committed to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Its official name was the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the...

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