(BUSINESS FINANCIAL) Who Should Buy Stock in the Afro Ameri

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(BUSINESS--FINANCIAL.) Who Should Buy Stock in the Afro-American Mercantile Company and Why? Printed handbill, 8½ x 4¾ inches; minor dampstaining and wear at folds. Wilmington, NC: W.H. Moore's Electric Print, undated

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The company was incorporated in Wilmington, NC in May 1903. This flier urges wide participation by "every Negro family": "We are making a place of business for you like white men make for their sons. We will need clerks, salesmen, book-keepers, type-writers, and agents." Farmers are urged to become shareholders as well as suppliers: "You will be building up your race." Nothing regarding this company is traced in OCLC or at auction.