Come back here you black rascal. Can't come back nohow, massa; Dis chile's Contraban'
Description:
This patriotic cover (envelope featuring images and slogans) was printed during the Civil War to promote the antislavery cause and depicts a a white slave owner with a whip amidst a crowd of African Americans rushing towards a building labelled Fort Monroe. [unidentified printer, 1861-1865]
Item from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Image use and licensing information: www.masshist.org/library/permissions
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