The result of the Fifteenth Amendment,the rise,progress of the African race 1

The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of the African race in America and its final accomplishment, and celebration on May 19th, A.D., 1870
Title: The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of the African race in America and its final accomplishment, and celebration on May 19th, A.D., 1870
Creator(s): Metcalf & Clark,
Date Created/Published: [Baltimore] : Published by Metcalf & Clark, 687 W. Baltimore St., c1870.
Summary: One of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment, and showing the parade celebrating it which was held in Baltimore on May 19 the same year. The amendment declared that the right to vote 'shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.' Here the parade winds down Monument Street from Baltimore's Washington Monument. In the left distance is the spire of the First Presbyterian Church. Heading the parade are a small troop of black Zouaves, holding rifles across their shoulders. They are followed by several men on horseback wearing top hats and sashes, several floats, and more soldiers. The sidewalks are lined with onlookers, many of them black. Framing the central image are a series of vignettes. At left are portrait busts of the late Pennsylvania representative and champion of black suffrage Thaddeus Stevens, Maryland representative Henry Winter Davis, author of the Wade-Davis Bill, and Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner. At right are busts of distinguished blacks Martin Robinson Delany, Frederick Douglass, and Hiram R. Revels. In the upper left corner of the print is an antebellum plantation scene, where a mustachioed overseer supervises slaves picking cotton. Nearby is an elegant house surrounded by palm trees. Beneath the scene are the words, 'We are in bondage. O deliver us!' In contrast, the right hand corner holds a Civil War scene of black troops rushing into battle, with the words 'We fought for Liberty, we now enjoy' below. In the center, above the parade scene, appear busts of (left to right) Lincoln, Baltimore jurist Hugh Lennox Bond, abolitionist martyr John Brown, Vice president Schuyler Colfax, and President Ulysses S. Grant. The three busts in the center rest on crossed laurel branches and flags. In the lower corners stand two parade groups of black men wearing Masonic sashes and aprons. They carry banners decorated with allegorical figures as well as the portraits of Lincoln, Grant, and Swiss patriot William Tell and his son. Between these groups are two small scenes: a black schoolroom with the words 'Education will be our pride,' and a black preacher before his congregation, with the words, 'The day of Jubilee has come.'
Notes:
Title from item.
'Entered ... 1870 A.D. by Metcalf & Clark ... Washington.'
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1870-2.
Subjects:
African Americans (portrayed), in the U.S. military.
Baltimore, Md.
Bond, Hugh Lenox.
Brown, John.
Colfax, Schuyler.
Constitutional amendments, fifteenth.
Davis, Henry Winter.
Delany, Martin Robinson.
Douglass, Frederick.
Grant, Ulysses S., presidency.
Masons.
Plantations and planters.
Revels, Hiram.
Slaves and slavery.
Stevens, Thaddeus.
Sumner, Charles, as champion of equal rights.
Voters and voting.
Lithographs--1870.
Bookmark /2003690775/
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