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WHITE SLAVE ('00s stage) WHITE SLAVE ('00s stage) stage poster OR search current auctions Auction History Result 9f0045 WHITE SLAVE 30x40 stage poster 1911 half-Italian girl raised as octaroon slave! Date Sold 7/6/2021 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. The poster has a few tears and defects around the edges and the entire back of the edges has been backed with a brown advertising tape and then someone covered that tape in white tape and added a later of that tape horizontally at center. There is a tear in the lower left corner that has been repaired with tape from the back. There are some creases and tears at upper center that have been repaired with tape from the back and there are several creases at bottom. The poster is rippled at lower left. The art is otherwise "all there" and after proper restoration the poster will display well, but bear in mind the poster's condition and the cost of restoration before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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