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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08395 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: 1870 Pagination: Order a Copy

"Hedgehog's Grand Combination of Powers of Darkness. . .The whole to conclude with Hedgehog's celebrated feat of swallowing a live negro!. . ." Reconstruction

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