Senate Chamber U.S.A. Conclusion of Clay’s Speech In Defence of Slavery caption title

by Anonymous

$5,000 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

N.p., but likely New York, 1839 . Lithograph, 10.25” x 12” plus margins. CONDITION: Good, narrow margins, upper margin expertly extended, lightly soiled, paper pulp reinforcements on verso. A rare and anonymously-produced political cartoon attacking Henry Clay’s duplicitous position on slavery, the issue that was at the fulcrum of so many political, moral, and legal

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