Our Great Peace Festival and Pow-Wow; To be Held in Boston, June 1869.
Boston: Printed by Warren Richardson, 1869.
Price: $225.00
About the item
21, 3pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers announcing “Mose skinner’s Grand Peace Jubilee and Jewsharp Oratorio.”.
Item #9901
Scarce piece of post-bellum American humor by Brown, proposing a celebration of the end of the Civil War on Boston Common. “We have not, as a people commemorated this great event, except in the hanging of Wirz, and the acquittal of Surratt…The object of this gathering is for the purpose of having a grand Musical Peace Festival and Pow-wow, for the season of three days, in honor of the restoration of peace…”.
