(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) Matthews PH John Brown The Fate of

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Matthews, P.H. John Brown * The Fate of Old John Brown. Letterpress songsheet, 10 x 6 1/2 inches, within a wood-engraved border with stereotypical images of blacks and other Southern themes; light wear, laid down on very thin tissue. New York: Henry de Marsan, [1861]

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Two nasty bits of pro-slavery doggerel. One reads "So, all you, old men, who wish to set the niggers free / Just think of John Brown and the gallows' tree." The other concludes "If the Niggers had been free, John / What would they get to do? / They know when they are well off / And now they laugh at you." Brown was executed in December 1859, but Marsan was only at this 54 Chatham Street address from 1861 to 1863; this must have been produced in the months just before the war.