a rare flyer, describing an important event. William C. Nell (1816-1874) organized this evening to commemorate Crispus Attucks and others as martyrs of the Revolution but also to protest the supreme court and judge taney's decision on dred scott, whose case had dragged on for years. Speeches were delivered by Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Dr. John S. Rock, Charles Lenox Remond, Theodore Parker and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Nell had also arranged for a number of items to be on display, emblematic of slavery and injustice. Among these pieces were various receipts for the sale of slaves, as well as this item: "Arabic sentences written by a Black Man owned by Gen. Owen of Wilmington, N.C." This was none other than Omar ibn Said, whose manuscript narrative was rediscovered and sold in these rooms in 1996. Omar's Narrative remains the only slave narrative written in an African slave's own written language, Arabic. This flyer also bears a long poem "A Parody on Red, White and Blue," written by Charlotte Forten, and sung by a male quartet with Amanda Scott. This flyer and the event it describes are discussed at length in Dorothy and Constance Porter's monumental work "William C. Nell, Selected Writings 1832-1874," pages 501-514.