(MILITARY) All Slaves Were Made Freemen by Abraham Lincoln

Sale 1961 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 16,100

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000

RARE RECRUITMENT BROADSIDE FOR COLORED SOLDIERS (MILITARY.) All Slaves Were Made Freemen by Abraham Lincoln . . . Come, then, Able-Bodied Colored Men, and Fight for the Stars and Stripes! Color lithographed broadside or flyer, with the text on one side and an image on verso depicting a Union soldier surrounded by ex-slaves, holding an American flag with a banner reading Freedom to the Slave, with another soldier removing their shackles, a slave in the foreground tearing a Confederate flag, and another who has put down his plough and is reading a newspaper, with a battle scene, a public school and a church spire in the background, 8 1/2x11 inches; evenly toned, folds, a few stray ink marks and a framer's pencil notation. Np (but Philadelphia or Boston?), circa 1863

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This remarkable piece of ephemera was probably intended to recruit soldiers in either the Boston or Philadelphia areas, as both raised colored regiments soon after Emancipation. We could locate only two other copies of this broadside, both in private collections (William Gladstone and a Seattle collector). The latter is a variant from this copy, with a partial printing of the John Brown Song on the letterpress side.