(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION RECONSTRUCTION AND KLAN) The Most Ex

Sale 2308 - Lot 133

Price Realized: $ 2,280

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Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000

VERY EARLY POSTER REGARDING THE KLAN (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RECONSTRUCTION AND KLAN.) The Most Exciting Story of the Century. Saturday Globe WHITE CAPS. During the Month of January. . .It will have a complete expose of the doings of the White Caps in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. Large poster, 24 x 18 inches, printed in black on a yellow field; a couple of tiny chips and closed tears; creases where folded. Utica, New York, 1889

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a rare poster for an expose of an early klan-type organization, the "white caps" as they were called.This series of articles appeared in the pages of the Utica Saturday Globe, the first illustrated newspaper in the United States. The White Caps grew out of the original Klan in North Georgia and spread into Ohio and Kentucky, and south into Mississippi .They wore the same outfits and basically had the same rules and tenets, and were popular throughout the deep South. Their victims were usually blacks, but personal grudges and other issues were often settled by a midnight visit from these men---a visit called "white-capping." As the Klan's power and membership grew during the 1920's and 1930s, the White Caps were absorbed into the Klan..