(MILITARY CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVERS) CONFEDERATE The Cause

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(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVERS.) CONFEDERATE. The Cause of all Our Troubles. Hand-colored cover depicting a black man within a wreath. In the background to one side, a scene of a wagon hauling bales of cotton, on the other a pastoral scene with Palmettos, the symbol of South Carolina. Un-cancelled. American South, circa 1861-1865

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a rare confederate cover blaming the war on blacks. The message could not be more direct. Provenance: private collection, acquired from the Gordon Bleuler Collection of Postal Covers.