MEDIA
Plea for Blacks to join the Republican Party with engraved images of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant
Original Author: Union Republican Congressional Committee
Created: 1868
Medium: Political pamphlet

The Party of Freedom and Its Candidates. The Duty of the Colored Voter.

An 1868 pamphlet produced by the Union Republican Congressional Committee encourages African Americans to vote Republican, the party of "The Emancipator," Abraham Lincoln. The six-page document is in the form of "a dialogue between a newly-made citizen and a Radical Republican."