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Dreadful Riot on Negro Hill! - Public domain broadside, Library of Con...
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 ... More
![Dreadful riot on Negro Hill! O read wid detention de melancholly tale and he send you yelling to your bed [Cut] Copy of an intercepted letter from Phillis, to her sister in the country, describing the riot on Negro Hill ... Boston 1827.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4MjcvMDEvMDEvZHJlYWRmdWwtcmlvdC1vbi1uZWdyby1oaWxsLW8tcmVhZC13aWQtZGV0ZW50aW9uLWRlLW1lbGFuY2hvbGx5LXRhbGUtYW5kLWhlLTEwMjQuanBn/40/66/webp "Dreadful riot on Negro Hill! O read wid detention de melancholly tale and he send you yelling to your bed [Cut] Copy of an intercepted letter from Phillis, to her sister in the country, describing the riot on Negro Hill ... Boston 1827.")
Dreadful riot on Negro Hill! O read wid detention de melancholly tale ...
Imprint 2.; Negro Riot.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 54, Folder 10.