(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) ANONYMOUS Grand Celebration of the B

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) ANONYMOUS. Grand Celebration of the Bobalition of African Slavery!!! Pictorial broadside, 17-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches, with two large woodcuts at the top of the page; professional restoration to an uneven portion at the top of the page, approximately 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 inches across the sheet, including a portion of the two woodcuts. [Boston, 1824]

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An exceedingly rare broadside satire of the annual celebration of the 1807 ban on the African Slave Trade popular among Boston's black community. Bigotry in the South was of course to be expected. But the ugly truth is; people the North, and the Northeast in particular, the home of abolitionism, harbored deep-rooted prejudice against people of color. The latter were not even permitted to openly celebrate the nation's birthday. So, a special holiday was created, the first of January, to commemorate the 1807 end of the African Slave trade. Bigots lost no time, and a number of broadsides and engravings caricaturing the celebration began to appear. OCLC locates only a single copy of this broadside at New York Historical Society. A copy of a different but equally vile version from 1822 is known.