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- GLC#
- GLC05762
- Type
- Objects
- Date
- 1859 circa
- Title
- [Twenty Star American "Abolitionist Flag"]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 textile flag Height: 158 cm, Width: 311 cm
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- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson Slavery & Anti-slavery
Large American cotton flag with only 20 stars. Fragile. The flag consists of 9 alternating red or white cloth strips sewn together with 20 somewhat irregular stars. The blue field is mottled and the flag has staining. The flag is identified as an "Abolitionist Flag" because it drops the slave states from the star field. (Measurements are approximate.) Discovered in Andover, Ohio, and may have been made there. Thought to show support for abolitionists like Brown.
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