CAUTION!!
COLORED PEOPLE
OF BOSTON, ONE & ALL,
You are hereby respectfully CAUTIONED and
adrised, to avoid conversing win the
Watchmen and Police Officers
of Boston,
KIDNAPPERS
Slave Catchers,
For since the recent ORDER OF THE MAX
ALDEREN, they are empowered to set
And they have atrendy been actually employed in
LOIDNAPPING, CATIMING, AND KEEPING
SLAVES. Therefore, if you valve your LIBERTY,
and the W are of the uglies among you, SAN
them in every possible manner, AS SO many WOUNDS
on the track of the most unfortunate of your race.
Keep a Sharp Look Out for
KIDNAPPERS, and have
TOP EYE open.
APRIL 24, 1851,
Source: Library of Congress, The American Timo Capsule:
Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephomora
18. This poster from the 1850s appeared in response to the
(1) passage of the fugitive slave law
(2) start of the Civil War
(3) issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation
(4) enactment of the 13th Amendment