This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/10/2020
[BLACK AMERICANA] Group of Early African American Ephemera. Including a catalogue (ca. 1920s?) for The Torrey Bros. Co. (Central Village, Conn.) small business that was successfully ran by “an American-born Negro” that features hockey sticks, ox yokes, etc.; an Alabama plantation missionary 4-side handbill (ca. 1895?); a 31pp. African Repository and Colonial Journal (June 1828) featuring articles on the Connecticut mission to Africa and an article on the abolition of slavery in the U.S. with the return of Blacks to Africa; a miniature handbill with the famous anti-slavery bible verse from Deuteronomy: “Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master…he will dwell with thee…thou shalt not oppress him” as seen on the title page of “The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims” by Samuel May (1861); sheet music including “Uncle Rome” by Sidney Homer (1909) and “Water Boy: A Negro Convict Song” (1922); and a pair of Victorian die-cut chromolithographs of young Black boys in livery with bouquet and card in hand (likely intended as Valentine-card “scraps”). A fine group.