Samuel W. Rowse

Samuel W. Rowse

Samuel Worcester Rowse (January 29, 1822-1901) was an American artist. His more famous works, mostly drawings in black and white, and in crayon, include:

*Ralph Waldo Emerson (the drawing )
*Nathaniel Hawthorne
*Arthur Hugh Clough
*Henry David Thoreau
*Fanny Appleton Longfellow
*Howard Dwight

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 (1861-1865) to raise funds for the Underground Railroad and other anti-slavery campaigns. Henry Brown, a slave, had escaped from Richmond, Virginia in 1849 by having himself shipped overland express to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a small box, where he was received by Reverend James Miller McKim and other members of the Anti-Slavery Society.


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