UNRECORDED BROADSIDE VERSE FOR ABOLITIONIST FUNDRAISER
[Drop-head title:] Anti-Slavery Bazaar.
[s.i.].
[s.n., s.d., c. 1849]
Dimensions 115 x 180mm.
Single leaf broadside, printed in single column within elaborate and finely decorated embossed borders. Slight spotting and small marginal tear at foot.
'Ye friends of liberty, all hail!
May your endeavours never fail
In freesom's sacred cause!
May blessings e'er attend your course,
In striving to uproot all force
And stern oppression's laws!'
A handsome broadside printing of a stirring four stanza verse, encouraging the fervent continuation of the abolitionist struggle, apparently composed for the 1849 Boston Anti-Slavery Bazaar.
Whilst this broadside itself is undated, the same verse is identified in The Liberator, January 26 1849 as one of 'two poetical effusions' originating at the 16th such Bazaar, at Faneuil Hall, organised as a fundraiser for the cause by the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Given that this occurred in the same month, shortly before that issue was published, it is likely that the work - otherwise unknown - was composed for that occasion.
Signed, in print - both in this broadside printing, and in the periodical appearance - with a simple M, this copy has had this converted to read 'Miss ?GQS' in a minuscule manuscript hand, suggesting that the work - quite naturally given its reading at the Bazaar - originated from a female writer, perhaps a member of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.
Unrecorded by OCLC and COPAC.
£ 625.00
Antiquates Ref: 23096
May your endeavours never fail
In freesom's sacred cause!
May blessings e'er attend your course,
In striving to uproot all force
And stern oppression's laws!'
A handsome broadside printing of a stirring four stanza verse, encouraging the fervent continuation of the abolitionist struggle, apparently composed for the 1849 Boston Anti-Slavery Bazaar.
Whilst this broadside itself is undated, the same verse is identified in The Liberator, January 26 1849 as one of 'two poetical effusions' originating at the 16th such Bazaar, at Faneuil Hall, organised as a fundraiser for the cause by the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Given that this occurred in the same month, shortly before that issue was published, it is likely that the work - otherwise unknown - was composed for that occasion.
Signed, in print - both in this broadside printing, and in the periodical appearance - with a simple M, this copy has had this converted to read 'Miss ?GQS' in a minuscule manuscript hand, suggesting that the work - quite naturally given its reading at the Bazaar - originated from a female writer, perhaps a member of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.
Unrecorded by OCLC and COPAC.