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WOOD,REVEREND NORMAN B.
The White Side of a Black Subject.
Frontispiece and 30 additional illustrations.
408 pages. Thick 8vo, original black cloth
stamped in silver on the upper cover and
spine; delicate paper at the inner joints
started, but sound.
Chicago: American Publishing, 1897
[350/500]
FIRST EDITION OF AN APPEAL TO REASON
REGARDING RACE
.
The author provides a his-
tory of slavery in the United States, and
contrasts it with the accomplishments of various
people of color, like William Wells Brown.
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FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
Effect of the Fifteenth Amendment.
Silver
print cabinet card photograph, 5
3
⁄
8
x 3
5
⁄
8
inches, on a larger 6
3
⁄
8
x 4
1
⁄
8
inch mount; one corner
the mount chipped, others rounded; nothing on the verso.
Np, circa 1870’s
[400/600]
A photograph of what appears to be a pencil drawing, the caption on the card reads: “Indignant
Mother: ‘Come in out dat Mud right straight! Fust ting you’ll know you’ll be took for Irish Chil’en.
The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the
right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”. It was ratified on 3
February, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. The same year, Hiram
Rhoades Revels became the first African member of Congress.