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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) RECONSTRUCTION.
The First Colored
Senator and Representatives, In the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United
States.
lithograph 12 x 16 inches, framed. New York: Currier & Ives, 1872
[800/1,200]
A UNIQUE COPY
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—RECONSTRUCTION.) CROMWELL,
JOHN W.
The Exodus. An Appeal to the Philanthropic People of the North for
Aid and Sympathy.
Folio leaf, folded to form four pages, printed on three sides; under-
lining in ink through the text.
WITH A LONG MANUSCRIPT NOTE IN PENCIL BY JOHN
CROMWELL ON THE THIRD PAGE
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PROFES
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SIONALLY CONSERVED WITH REPAIRS AT
THE FOLDS
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Washington: Office of the Emigrant Aid
Society, 1879
[1,500/2,500]
John Wesley Cromwell (1846-1927), lawyer,
historian, member of the Board of Audit of the
Emigrant Aid Society, and later co-founder of the
American Negro Academy (1897) was a tireless
civil rights advocate. His long remark in this flyer
is worth citing: “There is (sic) no laws of any
country so elastic as here in America when they
have to do with questions of Negro Rights and
Justice, in both state and national courts. They
have been and is (sic) being stretched as far as
necessary to reach the object aimed at - (?) to
defeat the ends of Justice to the interest of a
Negro who is in quest of the protection of the
law.” The Emigrant Aid Society was established
to aid Negroes pouring out of the South to the
Mid-west and North East.
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