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WHITE SLAVE ('00s stage) WHITE SLAVE ('00s stage) stage poster OR search current auctions Auction History Result 3k219 WHITE SLAVE horizontal 30x40 stage poster 1911 half-Italian girl raised as octaroon slave! Date Sold 12/29/2016Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Folded Stage Play Poster (measures 30 1/4" x 40 1/4" [77 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) The White Slave, the 1882 to 1918 white slavery race relations melodrama stage play production ("'Rags are royal raiment, when worn for virtue's sake!'"; "'That lady is a genuine white woman!'"; from the play by Bartley Theo Campbell; a wild story of a man whose daughter has an affair with an Italian, and that results in an out of wedlock baby, and because the grandfather does not want a half-Italian granddaughter, he gives the baby to his quarter-black slave, and the girl is raised as an "octaroon", someone who is one-eighth black; she grows up as a slave, but when she learns her true heritage, she is given her freedom and marries a white man!). Note that this stage play was first performed in 1882 and last performed in 1918, but the only poster we have seen from it is from 1911. If anyone knows more about this stage play, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good. The poster was folded down the middle. It has some separation on that fold and some small tears and small paper loss around the edges, with a 6" semi-circular tear in the upper right border. Someone put paper tape on the back of the borders. Learn More about condition grades
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