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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 description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

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. Composed as a dialect caricature, it is one example of a genre of broadsides mocking free blacks in the early years of the 19th century.