Abolitionist broadside, 1 December 1859. - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ([Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1859)
Abolitionist broadside endorsed Distributed in the streets of Boston Thursday evening Dec.1, 1859, the day before the execution of John Brown. Bold text reads: Let their epitaphs remain unwritten until the not distant day when no slave shall clank his chains in the shades of Monticello or by the graves of Mount Vernon. Brown was hanged on Dec. 2, 1859.
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Collection: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Keywords: African American history; Broadsides; Capital punishment; Reform movement; Slavery; Slavery; Brown, John, -- 1800-1859