[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Anti-Black satirical broadside. Greenfield, MA: N.p., [1818].
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Anti-Black satirical broadside. Greenfield, MA: N.p., [1818].
Bobolition of Slavery!!!! Grand Selebrashum by de Africum Shocietee!!!! Greenfield, MA: N.p., 1818.Visible 9 5/8 x 14 1/4 in. printed broadside (old folds, toned); matted and framed to 14 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (not examined out of frame, dampstain to lower right of mat). Signed in type "Cesar Crack-Em-All".Text in three columns written in a dialect caricature satirizing the African Society of Boston's annual celebration of the end of the slave trade on July 14th. The African Society was a mutual aid society founded in 1796 by 44 African American freedmen living in Boston. In addition to charity lectures, they hosted an annual celebration commemorating the official end of the transatlantic trafficking of kidnapped Africans to the United States in 1808. RARE: OCLC locates only 1 copy held at the New-York Historical Society Library.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
Bobolition of Slavery!!!! Grand Selebrashum by de Africum Shocietee!!!! Greenfield, MA: N.p., 1818.Visible 9 5/8 x 14 1/4 in. printed broadside (old folds, toned); matted and framed to 14 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (not examined out of frame, dampstain to lower right of mat). Signed in type "Cesar Crack-Em-All".Text in three columns written in a dialect caricature satirizing the African Society of Boston's annual celebration of the end of the slave trade on July 14th. The African Society was a mutual aid society founded in 1796 by 44 African American freedmen living in Boston. In addition to charity lectures, they hosted an annual celebration commemorating the official end of the transatlantic trafficking of kidnapped Africans to the United States in 1808. RARE: OCLC locates only 1 copy held at the New-York Historical Society Library.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Anti-Black satirical broadside. Greenfield, MA: N.p., [1818].
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