This 5 x 8 circular was posted and handed out to Blacks in the Beaufort, South Carolina region in an effort to get them to set aside August 6, 1863 “as a day of Public Thanksgiving and Praise.”  Read carefully the rest of this great circular!  Free Blacks are challenged to support the Union Army so that the enemy will not “return you again into that fearful state of bondage from which you have just been relieved.” 

          “Although you are still in the wilderness, your prospects

for liberty were never brighter than now.  The decree has gone

forth, and your long expected day of jubilee is slowly but surely

approaching.  These splendid triumphs of his armies add greatly

to the power of your friend, the President, to put in force his

glorious Proclamation of Emancipation, which gladdened your

hearts on the ever to be remembered first of January, 1863.  I

hope that you will all refrain from your ordinary avocations on

the 6^th of August, and meet together at your respective places

of worship, and render thanks to the great Author of every

blessing, who has vouchsafed these triumphs to the armies of

Liberty, with earnest prayers that the days of the bondage of your

race may be shortened.

                                                                                          R. Saxton,

                                                              Brigadier-General and Military Governor”

Condition is excellent!  CDV is sold separately and listed in our Prized Photos category.

#B14 – Price $395