An exceptionally rare, ill-formatted broadside song sheet produced almost certainly for a gathering of the New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society c.1840's. It was acquired by us with other materials connected to that society and all from the same period.
We trace not a single other example, likely bespoke for a single meeting. It is not foldable under any recognizable pattern and most would have almost certainly been discarded after the meeting.
Measuring c.13 x 19 inches, it contains the songs Get off the Track; Plantation Song; The Fugitive's Triumph; Farewell Address to Henry Bibb; The Slave's Lamentation; Freedom's Gathering; The Yankee Girl by John Greenleaf Whittier; and Colonization Song.
Of particular interest is this very early appearance of The Fugitive's Triumph, reported here as by "Tucker," but actually by escaped slave, Henry Walton Bibb, who fled to Detroit in 1842 and was very much influential in supporting the Underground Railroad and abolitionist causes. The next song also in reference to Hibb. Again, likely putting the date in the 1842-1843 timeframe.
Some foxing and staining, awkwardly trimmed [likely originally], small tear at fold. A superb survivor and likely unique.
