(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) DOUGLASS FREDERICK HIRAM REVELS AND

Sale 2308 - Lot 85

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) DOUGLASS, FREDERICK, HIRAM REVELS, AND BLANCHE W. BRUCE. Heroes of the Colored Race. Chromolithographic poster, 22 x 29-3/4 inches, extensive professional conservation to the reverse, framed. Cleveland: George M. Rewell, 1881

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a rare "uplift" poster, of which we have only handled one other copy.One of the most elaborate of the so-called uplift posters that were pubished in the period following the Civil War, this one has a center occupied by three busts: Frederick Douglass, Hiram Revels and Blanch Bruce; in the four corners are four black Reconstruction politicians, Chase E. Nash, Joseph H. Rainey, Jonathan Lynch and Robert Smalls. Surrounding the three central figures are vignettes of African Americans in slavery times, on the battle field, and in schoolrooms. In the bottom center is an oval portrait of John Brown. We could locate only two copies of this lithograph: Yale and the Library of Congress.