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- GLC#
- GLC08297
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- circa 1861
- Title
- Epitaph on the United States Of America.
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- PDF Download(s)
- PDF copy (image only)
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Confederate Broadside published by Evans & Cogswell commenting on the Union, Freedom , Equality, etc., and listing nearly every argument for Secession. "Here lie the mutilated and disjointed remains of the noblest form of Government." A main target is "a 'government of black men' being the chief ill of the social ties between two races' never designed by Providence to live together."
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