Emancipator Extra Slave Market of America

Sale 2105 - Lot 47A

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BROADSIDE "EXTRA" Emancipator--Extra. Slave Market of America. Large broadside "extra" for the American Anti-Slavery Society's official newspaper, Emancipator; with 9 fine wood-engraved vignettes and corresponding text, 27 1/2x21 inches; some light foxing. New York, 1836

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rare broadside protesting the House vote against passage of any bills to cease slavery in general and the District of Columbia in particular. The vignettes portray various Washington scenes: slaves being marched before the Capitol building; jailers selling escaped and free blacks through slave agents in the city (notably J. W. Neal and Co., whose premises are depicted), etc.
After repeated petitions and attempts to legislate against slavery in the nation's capital, "a special committee of the House of Representatives, appointed on February 8, 1836, under the chairmanship of Henry L. Pinckney of South Carolina, recommended the following resolution: That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way, or extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall without being either printed or referred, be laid on the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.'" The resolution passed by a vote of 177 to 68. Printed at the bottom of the broadside are the names of those who voted for Pinckney's resolution. See Dumond, Anti-Slavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America, pages 236-37.