2022-07 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/16/2022
Published by PUNCH, January 24, 1863, single sheet, printed one side, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4” is striking print titled “SCENE FROM THE AMERICAN 'TEMPEST” with caption “Caliban (Sambo) ‘You beat him nough, massa! Berry little time, I’ll beat him too.” The former slave is pictured as taking the Proclamation and showing eagerness to fight his former master. Indeed they did, 180,000 men strong the freed blacks were a critical element on the Union victory after active recruitment beginning after the Proclamation was issued.
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