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Dreadful Riot on Negro Hill!.
   
Complete Explanation:
Another in the "bobalition" series of broadsides, parodying black manners, illiteracy, and dialect. (See no. 1819-2.) The text describes, in the words of a "letter from Phillis to her sister in the country," a nocturnal attack by white Bostonians on black freedmen and their homes. The letter is facetiously dated "Ulie 47th, 180027."

The illustration shows a group of white men attacking and stoning a black woman and a man on crutches.


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