[Rarebooks] FS: Attractive 1868 Broadside of the THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT ABOLISHING SLAVERY

[Charles Agvent]

[AFRICAN-AMERICANA] LINCOLN, Abraham. THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT. JOINT 
RESOLUTION OF THE THIRTY EIGHTH CONGRESS ... PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO 
THE CONSTITUTION ... ABOLISHING SLAVERY. RESOLVED. Chicago: Western Bank 
Note & Engraving Co., 1868. First Edition. Large folio (16-1/4" x 
21-3/4") finely engraved and printed on good quality paper with 
elaborate decorative borders with a "US" monogram to upper corners, a 
bold calligraphic heading with "ABOLISHING SLAVERY" in prominent 
decorated letters; at top center is a small vignette of the pyramid and 
all-seeing eye above an oval vignette of a slave family with child 
mourning over a cameo portrait of Lincoln. This is followed by the 
engraved signatures of President Lincoln, Vice President Hamlin, 
Schuyler Colfax and J. W. Forney (Speaker and Secretary of the Senate), 
and 164 Senators and Congressmen. An exceedingly rare and beautiful 
printing of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery: "Neither 
slavery nor involuntary servitude ... Shall exist within the United 
States...." This elaborately engraved Reconstruction-era broadside, is 
based on the special "souvenir" copies on parchment signed by Lincoln 
and the others, of which only a handful are known to have been made. The 
Thirteenth Amendment represents the first substantive change to how 
America interpreted those liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights 
since its ratification in 1791. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed 
the slaves in the openly rebellious states. The Amendment effectively 
put an end to slavery once and for all upon its passage on 1 February 
1865. Recently backed with thin paper with several professional repairs 
of chips and tears. Very Good . (#019219)        $12,500

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