Bobalition of Slavery 1822 Broadside

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4323

Scope and Contents

One broadside from an 1816-1837 contemporary Bobalition series that satirized the annual July 14th Abolition Day celebrations for African Americans. This broadside has an imprint from "The Flying Booksellers," a woodcut image, and text in three columns.

Dates

1822-07-15

Physical Description

Broadside has been professionally matted. Some repairs and reinforcements have occured, done professionally.

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Biographical / Historical

Bobalition broadsides were typically distributed anonymously, though sometimes a watermark or imprint of a real or fake printer would appear. The broadsides used intentional malapropisms and caricatures to mock African Americans and the annual July 14th Abolition Day celebrations in the early 19th century. In response to the Bobalition broadsides, "Replies" were also distributed in which the Bobalition papers were criticized as being cruel and inciting violence.