1864 CIVIL WAR & SLAVERY. An Abolitionist Anti-Slavery Primer for the Young. Abolition Provenance. Methodist Full-page engraving of the Lunatic

Full-page engraving of the Lunatic Asylum [with accompanying article]

From mud & water

Grace was prominent among the Calvinistic Baptists of the mid-19th century

Hippopotamus

1864 CIVIL WAR & SLAVERY. An Abolitionist Anti-Slavery Primer for the Young. Abolition Provenance. Methodist Full-page engraving of the LunaticVery desirable on the market, the present is a Civil War era production designed to prepare the young for the coming full emancipation of slaves via the Emancipation Proclamation and the imminent end of the Civil War. It takes the form of the ubiquitous New England Primer, having each page with a superb woodcut with reference to slavery or the on going Civil War, and each beginning with the subsequent letter of the alphabet, i. e. a, b, c. etc. And