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View of Transparency in Front of Headquarters of Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, In Commemoration of Emancipation in Maryland, November 1, 1864.
Philadelphia: Ringwalt & Brown, c. 1864. Bifolium (407 x 335 mm). Engraving printed in colors on the first page (verso blank), text on both sides of the second leaf. a rare image of a significant african american and abolitionist rally in philadelphia during the civil war. “Just before the end of the war, on November 1, 1864, African Americans and white abolitionists culminated ‘a grand demonstration’ commemorating the emancipation of slaves in Maryland with 154 gas jets illuminating an enormous transparency, twenty-four feet wide, in front of the headquarters of the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments. A crowd of 10,000 heard speeches from Boston abolitionist Wendell Phillips, Robert Purvis and officers of the U.S. Colored Troops while marveling at the gas lit painting of African American valor during the Civil War and the heroes of black history -- Benjamin Banneker, James Forten, Lucretia Mott and others” (Nash, First City, pp. 257-259).