[LYNCHING IN FLORIDA ON OTTOMAN JOURNAL'S COVER] Resimli gazete. No: 68, Year: 2. 20 Kanunevvel 1340 [AD 20 December 1924]

Owners and Editors: SÜLEYMAN NAFIZ, (1870-1927); IBRAHIM ALAEDDIN [GÖVSA], (1889-1949)., Resimli Gazete Matbaasi [Illustrated Journal Printing House]., Istanbul, [AH 1340] = 1924. Original Ottoman illustrated journal. 40x27 cm. In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 8 p., richly ills. Taken from a volume. Foxing on pages, slightly chipped on hinges. Overall a very good copy.Extremely rare early issue of an Ottoman illustrated journal depicting a lynching of colored American citizens in Florida by white Americans, published one year after the proclamation of the Republic in Turkey.The first studies bearing social criticism on issues like slavery and abolition were made in the early years of the young Turkish Republic, which had refused the legacy of its imperial predecessor. In this period, several classics of American anti-slavery literature and contemporary works were translated for the first time, and texts on slavery and abolition in America were translated and publish