SALLY, COME UP! Broadside Ballad-Sheet

by Slavery, T C. Boyd

$200 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

San Francisco: T.C. Boyd, ca. 1860 . Racist slavery-era broadside printed and designed by one T.C. Near fine. Item #43380 . Boyd, featuring a drawing and lyrics to a ballad, which begins: Massa's gone to town de news to hear, / And he has left the overseer, / To look over all de n***rs here, / While I make love to Sally! Boyd notes he had 10,000 such sheets for sale at his shop.

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