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Title All slaves were made freemen. By Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, January 1st, 1863. Come, then, able-bodied colored men, to the nearest United States camp, and fight for the stars and stripes. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [Philadelphia Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments]
Date [1863]
Physical Description 2 prints : color lithograph ; sheet 30 x 24 cm (11.5 x 9.25 in.)
Description Civil War recruitment print targeting African Americans by evoking the freedoms granted by the Emancipation Proclamation. Depicts a montage of symbolic scenes centered around an African American Union soldier triumphantly holding up a sword and an American flag with the banner "Freedom to the Slave." He stands near broken shackles upon a tri-color flag adorned with a coiled snake. The flag is tugged upon by one of three joyous African Americans freed from enslavement by an African American soldier. Other scenes depict an African American man reading a newspaper on a rocking chair near a plow and child, African American children entering a "Public School" near a church, and a regiment of "U.S. Colored Troops" marching across a battlefield strewn with dead bodies.
Is referenced by Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 227
Notes Title printed on verso.
Text of the "Original Version of the John Brown Song" by H.H. Brownell printed on verso.
Described in LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History, entry #139.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellany [(2)5786.F.107b]. Transferred from #Am 1863 All (2)5786.F.107b. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886. Accessioned 1987 [P.9179.44]
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation
African American children.
African American men.
African American soldiers -- Recruiting -- United States.
African Americans -- Education -- United States.
Flags -- American.
Freedmen -- United States.
Public schools -- United States.
Reading -- United States.
Slaves -- United States.
Enslaved men -- United States.
Free persons -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
African American soldiers -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
Genre Broadsides -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- Color -- 1860-1870.
Printer Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (Philadelphia, Pa.), publisher.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| GC - Emancipation [P.9179.44; (2)5786.F.107b]
Accession number P.9179.44
(2)5786.F.107b