CA 211
Four illustrations of slavery in the Lake Nyasa region and Eastern Africa, 1876-1889. B
Price: $160.00
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Civil Rights/Slavery
CA 210
CA 210
Three tobacco cards produced by Helmar Turkish Cigarettes in New York in 1910. This is part of the set titled Seals of the United States. Only these three cards featured slaves in Tennessee, Alabama and North Carolina. B
Price: $80.00
CA 209
Four reprints of the 1892 Kurz & Allison artwork on the Civil War. The focus of this collection is on USCT troops fighting for the North. Shown are the Fort Pillow massacre, the Battle of Nashville, the 54th Mass at Olustee and storming Fort Wagoner. B
Price: $400.00
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CA 206
Fact card produced in 1993 by Atlas Editions about the Freedmen’s Bureau. Headed by Major General Oliver O. Howard (after which Howard University was named), the Bureau became the only guardian of civil rights the former slaves could turn to. However, “the agency became the pawn of the corrupt Radical Republican government and was used to maintain control of the states occupied by federal troops”. Congress discontinued the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1872. Text on reverse. B
Price: $30.00
CA 205
Fact card produced in 1993 by Atlas Editions about Robert Smalls, the slave who became a politician. In 1862 Smalls, a slave, was piloting the Planter, a steam-powered side-wheeler that had been chartered to the Confederate government. He, along with his wife and two children and 12 other slaves managed to escape aboard the Planter and reached the Union blockade fleet off Charleston. Along with 4 cannon, Smalls brought vital intelligence about the Confederate defenses. Smalls was made civilian captain of the Planter and participated in 17 engagements. After the war he served in the South Carolina House of Representatives and five terms in the US House of Representatives. Text on reverse. B
Price: $30.00
CA 207Fact card produced in 1993 by Atlas Editions about the birth of the KKK. The war brought economic ruin and a complete change to the social structure in the south. The Radical Republican Congress had placed the South under military rule and carpetbaggers and scalawags sat in the State houses, raising taxes and looting state treasuries. White Southerners had lost all control over their own affairs and as ex-Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest put it, in losing the war they had “lost all but (their) honor”, and now they felt even that was being stripped from them. To regain some measure of control, secret societies were formed and in 1866 a group of six ex-Confederate veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan. Thus began the “invisible empire of the South” that would grow to be the largest and best known of the groups that opposed the Reconstruction government and attempts by freed blacks to receive their rights. Klansmen wore white hoods as “ghosts of dead Rebel soldiers” and paid midnight visits to frightened blacks and carpetbaggers. Disgusted at how the KKK had become so violent, General Forrest resigned as the first Grand Wizard. Text on reverse. BB
Price: $30.00
CA 119
Spanish comic book Vidas Ilustres, on Martin Luther King. m
Price: $120.00
CA 204
Fact card produced in 1993 by Atlas Editions about the origin and performance of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. Worth noting is that black soldiers were paid $7 per month while white soldiers were paid $10. At least 134,111 slaves became Union soldiers during the war. Text on reverse. BBBB
Price: $30.00
CA 087
Mexican comic book, 1967, Estrellas del Deporte, Ray “Sugar” Robinson. It is about the life of the famed boxer. m
Price: $120.00
CA 202
CA 202
Gum card from the set UNCLE SAM by Philadelphia company Gum Inc (now defunct), published in 1941 shortly before Pearl Harbor. The focus of the set was directed to US preparedness for hostilities, and it is devoid of the vivid and horrifying details of the overseas warfare which was already taking place. This card shows marines in aid of a black family during a Mississippi River flooding. A rare card. B
Price: $30.00