1880 SLAVERY - RECONSTRUCTION. "Negro Boy Choking a Turkey" Pewter Ice Cream Mold. Inklings Printed for John Gillies

Printed for John Gillies

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Hinges just through paper and lightly shaken

1880 SLAVERY - RECONSTRUCTION. "Negro Boy Choking a Turkey" Pewter Ice Cream Mold. Inklings Printed for John GilliesVery rare form Negro Boy Choking a Turkey pewter ice cream mold by Eppelscheimer, c. 1880 1900. A very rare form, this artifact is itself a sort of working metaphor of the process of commoditizing and infantilizing the black population in America during reconstruction and into the early 20th century via minstrel shows, quaint curios, comic books and postcards, etc., In a very real sense, this object itself creates and "molds" physical objects that