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Afro-American Monument. Oil process chromo-lithographic poster. In a central panel, an angel puts her hand on the head of a slave, "The wonders of a
Afro-American Monument. Oil process chromo-lithographic poster. In a central panel, an angel puts her hand on the head of a slave, "The wonders of a dream as Christopher Attucks saw them as in his pent up soul and restless spirit he slept on his straw bed dreaming of liberty"; around this are nine vignettes depicting scenes from slavery to the results of emancipation; a larger vignette below shows Abraham Lincoln wielding a sledgehammer, "breaking the chain of bondage and stamping out the serpent of slavery and erecting a monument to the race." Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass are also pictured. 30x24 inches. Diagonal chips from upper right and lower left corners; 2 inch closed tear to upper edge partially affecting the background of the image; a few light stains in the blank border. Copyrighted 1897 by B. F. Hammond. Chicago: Goes Litho. Co., 1897
- Notes: rare. only the library of congress copy of this poster is located. An exceedingly beautiful poster, with complex themes. In one panel, a country church is shown with a serpent wound around its steeple, while a flock of angels flees from a window; the caption reads "Church dividing on the question of slavery, 1844 - Ye have made it a den of thieves.'" Another panel shows Peter Salem, a revolutionary war soldier, "the first to spill blood of the enemy to give America the boon of liberty." At the bottom right, as though summing up, is a large panel "Statistical Information."
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