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TICKETS FOR ANTI-SLAVERY LECTURES (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Six tickets to New York Anti-Slavery Society lectures for talks by these five speakers, and one 'Season Ticket' for a lady. All about the same size and design. Vp, circa 1840's to 1850's
six very scarce tickets to anti-slavery lectures by both african american and white abolitionists. Just the sort of ephemera that generally does not survive, given their size. These are important relics of an age not unlike the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950's and '60's. The first card is for a lecture to be given by William Wells Brown, said to be a 'Fugitive slave' at the time, thus dating it to the late 1840's or early 1850's. Brown was later the author of 'Clotel,' the first novel by an African American; 'The Escape,' the first play by an African American, as well as the first travel book by an African American. The second card is for 'the Disfranchised American,' a lecture by Charles Lenox Remond, African American activist from Boston. Other lecturers include Hon. Cassius Clay, Charles Sumner and Horace Greeley.
