Civil Rights/Slavery
Collection of illustrations from European periodicals and Harpers Weekly showing the life of Black Americans in the 19th century after the Civil War. Shows Negro Immigrants to Kansas, domestic servitude, Philadelphia Exhibition of 1877, Magistrates procession in Philadelphia, character sketches, Delaware fishing, hotel work, a mascot named “Sunshine”, negro workmen under police protection during the Chicago butchers strike, picking fruit. M
Price: $220.00
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Collection of European illustrations concerning the life of African Americans in the South shortly before and during the American Civil War. Life on a plantation, receiving cotton bales on the Alabama River, serving Shermans men, the levee at New Orleans, crowd waiting for Lincoln at Baltimore, refugees near Vicksburg, working with the Christian and Sanitary Commission, slave auctions, a negro barber in Richmond, selling sweet potatoes in Charleston, night amusement in the Confederate camp, watching the blockade of Charleston Harbor, fishing for devil fish. Most with complete text. Also some articles on slave populations of the border states, American slavery, the Downfall of American Slavery, the Negro in America, the Slaves of Virginia. All of these articles are complete and give the UK perspective on the subjects. M
Price: $200.00
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