Lot 31
"THE FREEMAN"
Excellent copy of the first illustrated black newspaper in the United States, the April 20, 1889 edition of "The Freeman", 8pp. folio, , published in Indianapolis by editor Edward Elder Cooper. The newspaper prominently features portraits and biographies of African-Americans in prominent positions of the time, including Rev. F.M. Hamilton, editor of the "Christian Index" of Jacksonville, Tennessee. The paper also contains jokes, advertisements for pistols, patent medicines, and other wares, political cartoons, and a serialized excerpt from H. Rider Haggard''s "King Solomon''s Mines". The masthead prominently features images of a black soldier, Lincoln emancipating a slave, black voters and sharecroppers. The paper bears a stamp and a label indicating that they were once the property of the Indianapolis Public Library, with slight chipping to the edges, and may have been disbound from a compilation, else very good.
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