Lot 28
THE NEW YORK "EXAMINER AND CHRONICLE" REPORTS ON BLACK CHURCHES MOURNING LINCOLN
Intriguing Civil War-era newspaper, the April 27, 1865 edition of the New York "Examiner and Chronicle", 4pp. folio. . The paper is printed with a black border indicating mourning for recently assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, and contains and interesting report on "Worship in the Colored Churches" of Richmond, in part: "...Their prayers are simple, fervent, grotesque, and sometimes eloquent. O, how they would plead for the Government and Abraham Lincoln, and thank God that he had heard their cries, seen their afflictions, and come down to save them! Nothing was more touching than their pleadings for fathers, mothers and brothers, taken off in chains to be sold in the Southern market. A sensation would go through the whole house when this subject was touched upon. I confess I felt a pleasure in escaping the frigid conventionalities and formalism of our Anglo-Saxon worship, to enjoy the devotions of these simple, afflicted, down-trodden children of nature..." The paper is in fair condition, with splitting along the folds, chipping at the edges, and toned throughout, still an illuminating reminder of the times.
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