The Parting—“Buy Us Too.” Color lithograph by Henry Louis Stephens, from Album Varieties No. 3: The Slave in 1863, 1863. “[T]he handcuff, the lash—the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives,” actress and former Georgia resident Fanny Kemble wrote in her diary, “these are the realities which belong to the system [of American slavery].”