Feb 28, 2006 - Sale 2068

Sale 2068 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
(BROADSIDE.) A Negro Woman's Lamentation. Printed broadside with copper engraving, 73/4x93/4 inches; vertical creases where folded; tiny pinholes at corners. London: Bagster, circa 1830
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A copper engraving of a kneeling slave woman, a Bible in her hands, her chains laying broken beside her. A twelve verse poem on either side that begins: "Born on Afric's golden coast / once I was as blest as you. . ."