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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. BREAKER, C.M. To Planters and Other Slaveholders. Spring Hill, AL, 13 November 1849. Handbill to evangelize to enslaved people.
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$1,386
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. BREAKER, C.M. To Planters and Other Slaveholders. Spring Hill, AL, 13 November 1849. Handbill to evangelize to enslaved people.
4to (7 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.) handbill printed on bifolium (some separations along old folds, minor toning). Signed in type by President C.M. Breaker and Secretary A.A. Connella. With address panel on integral leaf verso, addressed to "Mr. Burwell (Planter)" of Dayton, Alabama, with red "Springfield / ALA / Feb 16" and "5" stamps.
A handbill published by the Bethel Baptist Association, a group of 27 Churches in Alabama with the intent to "extending to planters and other slave-holders...the offer of the Association's active co-operation, in the work of supplying their slaves with the preaching of the Gospel." Continues with extracts from their State Convention in favor of evangelizing to the enslaved.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents