This patriotic cover (envelope featuring images and slogans) was printed during the Civil War to promote the antislavery cause and depicts a map of the war, and in the bottom left corner, a young African American with the legend, "I'se de innocent cause ob all dis war trubble." [Cincinnati: James Gates, 1861-1865]
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