[WAR OF 1812]. American Extra. An Act laying an Embargo on all ships & vessels in the Ports & Harbours of the United States. Washington, D.C.: N.p., 22 December 1807. 

6 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. letterpress broadside (some brown spotting, minor toning, light wear at edges); framed to 12 x 14 in. (not examined out of frame). Ink inscription notes "recd 23d Dec 1807".

An announcement of the Embargo Act of 1807 which was a general trade embargo on all foreign nations, in the climate of the Napoleonic Wars and the escalation of attempts to convince the British to cease the impressment of American sailors. During the Napoleonic Wars, the British would seize as contraband of war and impress into service any American merchant sailors who were captured and deemed to be trading with "enemy nations." Going unresolved, this conflict was one of the central causes of the War of 1812. 


Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents