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(GARVEY,MARCUS.)
Stock Certificate for 2 shares of common stock in the
Black Star Line, issued to Miss Amy McKenzie.
Engraved certificate, signed by Garvey
and Secretary Treasurer Edward Smith Green; with the corporate blind stamp of the Black
Star Line and a five cent revenue stamp; creases where folded, tiny hole at the conjunction of
two folds not affecting any lettering.
NewYork, 18 September 1919
[2,500/3,500]
A VERY EARLY STOCK CERTIFICATE FOR GARVEY
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S BLACK STAR LINE
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The Black Star
Line was to be the U.N.I.A.’s vehicle for promoting worldwide commerce among black
communities. In Garvey’s vision, Black Star Line ships would transport manufactured goods,
raw materials, and produce among black businesses in North America, the Caribbean, and
Africa, and become the linchpin in a global black economy.
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(GARVEY, MARCUS.) STOCK CERTIFICATE.
Two shares of common
stock in the Black Star Line, issued to Florence O.Truesdell.
Engraved certificate
9x10-3/4 inches; elaborate green border with mast-head of the globe with a black man
and a ship, Signed by Orlando M. Thompson, as vice-president of the Black Star Line.
Creases where folded, 1919 seal of the Black Star Line. An attractive example.
NewYork, 4 October 1921
[800/1,200]
The signer of this certificate, vice-president Orlando M.Thompson, was one of Garvey’s right
hand men, and an indicted co-conspirator in the federal case brought against Garvey and the
Black Star Line. In all, Elie Garcia, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, OrlandoThompson, and George
Tobias were accused of “using the United States Post Office to defraud.” The government’s
case was so thin that Garvey was the only one of the four convicted (on only one count) and
he had less to do with the alleged crime than all the rest.
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