The attached is a digital facsimile of a classified ad that was once posted in a Georgia newspaper long after the Emancipation Proclamation was passed into law. The editors at THE NATION saw fit to title the notice as an “interesting little advertisement” when they reproduced it six months later on their pages. Yet, for the Georgians who set the type-face, applied the ink, delivered the paper and subscribed, the ad was typical of so many other classifieds that had appeared during the past one hundred and fifty years, and it was not, as the Yankees put it:
“…the request of someone who never heard of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.”
Click here to read a history of African-Americans between the years 1619 through 1939.
