Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 81

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
RARE RACIST ANTI-LINCOLN (MILITARY.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Niggers In Convention. Sumner's Speech. Broadside, 9 x 5 inches, consisting of three quatrains, within a double rule border, printed on yellow paper. [Baltimore, circa 1863]
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A rather strange and mean-spirited song-sheet, written in dialect, most probably referring to a speech given by Charles Sumner in the summer of 1862 in favor of arming Negro troops. rare. oclc locating only five copies: Brown, Wake Forrest, UVA, N.Y. Historical, and AAS. Edwin Wolf. American Song Sheets, C117; E.L. Rudolph: Confederate broadside verse, 18.