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VICIOUS RACIST BROADSIDE
360
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(MILITARY—CIVIL WAR—
RACISM.)
Niggers in Convention.
Sumner’s Speech.
Broadside, printed on
bright yellow paper, 9 x 5 inches; text
within a double-ruled border; small crease
and tiny short closed tear in upper right
corner.
Np (Southern States), [1861]
[600/900]
A VERY RARE RACIST BROADSIDE POEM
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written in dialect, in reaction to Charles
Sumner’s speech to the Republican State
Convention in Worcester, MA. on October 1st
of 1861, where he suggested the slaves be freed
and then armed. This was met with shock and
derision in both the South and the North. It
took almost two years and the fear that the war
might not be so easily won, to actually begin the
use of colored troops. OCLC locates seven
copies. Library Company American Song
Sheets, C117.
360
361
361
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(MILITARY—CIVIL WAR—
RACISM.) VAN EVRIE, JOHN.
The
Old Guard, a Monthly Journal Devoted
to the Principles of 1776 and 1787.
Volume I, Numbers 3, 6, and 7; Volume
II, Number 1. Engraved portraits in each
issue; average 16-24 pages; uniform small
4to’s with the original printed wrappers,
the latter worn, but all present.
New York: Chauncey Burr, 1863
[400/600]
A deeply racist journal blaming Lincoln and
the Negroes for the War; with articles like
“The Traitor Congress and the Traitor
President,” and “The U.S. Treasury Robbed to
Buy Negroes.” The publisher of this periodical
carried a full-page advertisement for the “New
York Weekly Caucasian, the White Man’s
Paper.” Published by John Van Evrie, author of
“The Negro a Beast,” and other similar
pseudo-anthropological tracts.