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Are you ready for the upcoming Holidays & Celebrations, (YOU KNOW THEY'RE COMING!) Birthday, Anniversary, Bridal Shower, Bachelor Party, Engagement, or just giving a Surprise Gift? LEST WE FORGET! A BOOK OF POSTCARDS! 30 INDIVIDUAL POSTCARDS! TRIUMPH OVER SLAVERY! MINT! I will be on Vacation starting Monday, 6/23 returning on Thursday, 7/10. I may or may not have access to a computer. I expect to be able to respond to questions via the eBay network, as well as emails in general. I will ship out items from now, up to and including Saturday, 6/21. That is providing I receive payment prior to June 21. I will resume responding to emails and questions when I return. I will ship out all items within 3 days of my return. Please check out my feedback for a level of comfort. Bid with confidence. You are bidding on a very nice PIECE OF AMERICAN HISTORY. The "THE TRIUMPH OVER SLAVERY!" This is a part of the "AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE!" This is a Soft~Cover Book of 30 POST CARDS! This is in "PERFECT/MINT" condition! SPECIFICS: POSTCARD BOOK: Measures about 6 15/16" X 4 13/16" X 3/8"; There are 30 POSTCARDS plus a couple of pages of narrative text; There are perforations very near the binding edge; Each post card is able to be removed for FRAMING. DATE: That is the only date I see is 2007. TEXT: FRONT COVER: Lest We Forget; The Triumph Over Slavery; The Schomburg Center for Research in black Culture; The New York Public Library; A Book Of Postcards. BACK COVER EXCERPTS: This book of thirty postcards features reproduction of historic photographs, painting, drawings, and documents that chronicle the struggle to overcome slavery...Filled with powerful images from The Schomburg Center for Research in black Culture... SOME EXCERPTS OF THE NARRATIVE INTRODUCTION TEXT: Much has been written about the transatlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas...the treatment of enslaved Africans--the trauma of capture and enslavement, the horrors of the middle passage, the grueling and at time dehumanizing regime of plantation work, the unwarranted cruelty and brutality of the slavery system established in America...Slavery was vicious, brutal and dehumanizing...an extraordinarily human and humanizing process was being authored and lived out by the enslaved Africans...New languages...religions were being invented and practiced...New art forms...music...dances were being created...new world Africans were creating and re-creating themselves anew in the midst of slavery...The foundations of African American economic, political, social, and cultural life can be traced to the struggles waged by enslaved and free Africans during slavery... SOME OF THE COMMON TEXT ON BACK: 2007 The New York Public Library; Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. COVER: That is BLANCHE K. BRUCE, FREDERICK DOUGLASS, and HIRAM REVELS on the cover; There is also a postcard inside with the same picture. TITLE OF THE CARD & EXCERPT~ BRIEF DESCRIPTION IS ON THE BACK OF EACH CARD: Water Passage~Oil on Canvas. Carry Me Back To Old Virginny~Sheet Music Cover c. 1878; African American composer James Bland (1854-1911); Official state song of Virginia since 1940. Portrait of Men~Albumen Print c. 1865 Colored National Convention~Wood Engraving; Nashville, Tennessee on April 5-7 & May 6, 1876. Miss Elegant~ Sheet Music Cover c. 1920s; 1900 to 1924, R.C. McPherson wrote lyrics...headed New York's first African American music publishing company. First African Baptist Church of Savannah~Engraving c. 1852; Founded January 20, 1788...its first pastor was Andrew Bryan, a slave. Come and Join Us Brothers~Union recruitment poster, 1863. Slave Auction Broadside c. 1850. The workers~Watercolor 1993. Returning from the Cotton Field in south Carolina~Sterographic image c. 1870. Death of Captain Ferrer, The Captain of the Amistad, July, 1839; Captured Africans frequently revolted on slave ships... Storming Fort Wagner~Lithograph 1890; Charge of the 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment, July 18, 1863. Minutes and Proceeding of the First National Convention of the People of Color~Published in the Salem Gazette, November 8, 1831 The Fifteenth Amendment, 1889; Ratified by congress on February 3, 1870... African Burial Ground~Watercolor 1994; More than 20,000 enslaved African men, women, and children were buried at the colonial era African burial ground in lower Manhattan. Benjamin Bannicker's Almanack c. 1792; Broadside for the first edition of the almanac... Tom Molineaux~Etching 1810 Born a slave, Molineaux (1784-1818) won his freedom and $100 by defeating a slave from a neighboring plantation in a boxing match... Market Woman~Albumen print c. 1870. Portrait of a Man with Scarification. Harriet Tubman; Born a slave, Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) ran away from a Maryland plantation in 1849 and soon afterward began to help others escape.... Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral 1778; Born in Africa and enslaved in America, Phyllis Wheatly was the first published African American author. Negre & Negresse dans Une Plantation~Lithograph c. 1885. Portrait of a Woman, Bahia, Brazil~Albumen print c. 1880; More than 3.5 million slaves were transported to Brazil during the slavery era... Benguela/Angola/Congo/Monjolo~Lithograph c. 1835. Toussaint L'Ouverture Rec. Proclamation 1821; The eldest son born to slaves, Francois-Dominique Toussaint L'Overture (c. 1743-1803) became on of the founding fathers of Haiti... Ira Aldridge, 1853~Engraving, n.d.; Born to a free black family in New York City in 1807, Ira Aldridge received his education at the African Free School on Mulberry Street... Mozambique~Lithograph c. 1835. Booker T. Washington, 1911; Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was freed from slavery as a nine-year old... Sojourner Truth; Born Isabella Baumfree, Truth (1797-1883) changed her name after escaping slavery... Heroes of the Colored Race~Lithograph, 1881; Most prominently featured on the poster are Blanche K. Bruce, Frederick Douglas, and Hiram Revels. ADDITIONAL TEXT: There might be more text on the back of some of the cards describing the picture on the front; I just stated a brief part. So, here you have a very nice piece of History. These PostCards would make beautiful individually framed pictures, to be placed in your home, office den club, school, etc. EARLY AMERICANA HISTORY! AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE! SLAVERY! THIRTY POST CARDS! MINT! HISTORIC NEGRO LIFE! LEST WE FORGET! A BOOK OF POSTCARDS! 30 INDIVIDUAL POSTCARDS! TRIUMPH OVER SLAVERY! MINT! Lets start the bidding at $24.99. This would be a very nice addition to your collection. Once your payment is received! Your item will be shipped out immediately! The very next day the post office is open! A great gift for the collector in your life. Holidays and birthdays are always coming. Be prepared! This would make a great, NO OCCASION/SURPRISE GIFT! Shipping & Handling within the USA is $8.00 Multiple auction wins may enjoy combined/reduced shipping costs that may be less than the sum. Insurance is always a recommended option. There is always the possibility (maybe not probable, but possible) your item may get lost in the morass of the USPS. If you choose not to insure the item, my postal receipt will serve as proof/validation your item had been shipped. Maybe this item just isn't what you had in mind! You may want to consider using the option on this auction page. "Email to a friend!" You will find this link in the light blue area. The last item, a little way down, under "Place Bid!" 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