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- GLC#
- GLC05018
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- 5 January 1863
- Author/Creator
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
- Title
- An Address to the People of the Free States by the President of the Southern Confederacy.
- Place Written
- Richmond, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 30.3 cm, Width: 22.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Contemporary fake on emancipation. Imprint, "Richmond Enquirer Print." A fictitious response of Jefferson Davis to the Emancipation Proclamation, threatening retaliation by enslaving Black people. It says in part "All negroes who shall be taken in any of the states in which slavery does not now exist, in the progress of our arms, shall be adjudged, immediately after such capture, to occupy the slave status, and in all states which shall be vanquished by our arms, all free negroes shall, ipso facto, be reduced to the condition of helotism...."
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