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132 (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—RECONSTRUCTION.) The National
Freedman, a Monthly Journal of the New York National Freedman’s Relief
Association. Group of 10 issues, includingVolume 1, Number 11 which contains a print-
ing of the 13th Amendment (“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . . . shall exist
within the United States”). 8vo, self-wrappers. NewYork, 1865-66 [1,000/1,500]
Only one other copy of Volume 1, Number 11 has come to auction. That copy was sold by
Swann Galleries in 2011 for $1100.The 13th Amendement is printed on the front page of
this issue, but it contains additional articles relating to the amendment’s passge. The most
notable is Laura Haviland’s account of Sojourner Truth being injured while being forcibly
removed from aWashington, D.C. street-car.The legal case which resulted from the incident was
won by the plaintiff andWashington street-cars were subsequently desegregated.
This lot contains the following additional issues of the periodical:Volume 1: Numbers 2, 4-10,
andVolume 2, Number 3 .
133 ● (SLAVERY AND
A B O L I T I O N —
RECONSTRUCTION
AND KLAN.) The
Most Exciting Story of
the Century. Saturday
Globe WHITE CAPS.
During the Month of
January . . . It will have
a complete expose of
the doings of the White
Caps in Ohio, Indiana
and Kentucky. Large
poster, 24 x 18 inches,
printed in black on a yel-
low field; a couple of tiny
chips and closed tears;
creases where folded.
Utica, NewYork, 1889
[3,500/5,000]
A RARE POSTER FOR AN
EXPOSE OF AN EARLY KLAN-
TYPE ORGANIZATION, THE
“WHITE CAPS” AS THEY
WERE CALLED. This series of
articles appeared in the pages
of the Utica Saturday Globe,
the first illustrated newspaper
in the United States. The
White Caps grew out of the original Klan in North Georgia and spread into Ohio and Kentucky,
and south into Mississippi .They wore the same outfits and basically had the same rules and tenets,
and were popular throughout the deep South.Their victims were usually blacks, but personal grudges
and other issues were often settled by a midnight visit from these men—a visit called “white-capping.”
As the Klan’s power and membership grew during the 1920’s and 1930s, the White Caps were
absorbed into the Klan.