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Bobolition of Slavery!!!!

Bobolition of Slavery!!!! Broadside
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Broadside

43.8 cm x 26.9 cm

Greenfield, Mass: [unidentifed printer], [1818]
This satirical broadside is composed as a dialect cariacture of the African Society of Boston and the annual July 14 celebration of the end of the slave trade.


This broadside, published in 1818, satirizes the African Society of Boston's annual celebration of the abolition of the slave trade, a tradition that began in 1808.