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WHITE SLAVE ('00s stage) WHITE SLAVE ('00s stage) stage poster OR search current auctions Auction History Result 8p0121 WHITE SLAVE 30x40 stage poster 1911 half-Italian girl raised as octaroon slave! Date Sold 5/11/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Unfolded 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. Condition: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It has small tears around the edges that affect blank paper and the edges have been completely backed by older, brown advertising paper tape. There is some slight discoloration in the upper right blank corner. The art image is in excellent condition and the poster displays quite well as is! Learn More about condition grades 
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