Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 180
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AFRICAN AMERICANS.) Hedgehog's Grand Combination of the Powers of Darkness, Will Exhibit at Jake Key's Roost. Letterpress broadside, 10 x 6 1/4 inches; short repaired tear along top edge. Np, 5 May 1870
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A playbill satirizing the recently ratified 15th Amendment, which gave freed slaves the right to vote. The performance will conclude with Professor Hedgehog's "celebrated feat of swallowing a live negro!" At this performance, "Front seats reserved for the Colored Ladies. No white folks admitted without special permission of Professor Hedgehog."