Description
- Notes:
- Printed area measures: 42.2 x 24.2 cm.
- Printed in three columns divided by type ornaments; between title and text, wood-engraving of a company of Afro-American militia.
- Satire in dialect printed supposedly under the auspices of the African Society of Boston for the annual African celebration.
- Mention, among others, of Monroe, Napoleon, and Massachusetts' Governor Brooks determined imprint date approximation.
- Not in Shaw & Shoemaker, Shoemaker, or Ford.
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
African Society (Boston, Mass.),
"Grand Bobalition of Slavery:
Grand and most helligunt Selebrashum of the Bobalition of Slabery in de Nited Tate ob Neu Englunt, and commonwet of Bosson in de country of Massa-chuse-it
"
Voyage of the Sally, Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:303828/
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