| Contributor |
Childs, J. publisher. |
| Title |
The Cincinnati platform, or the way to make a new state in 1856. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia : Publd. by I. [sic.] Childs, 84 South 3rd St |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1856 |
| Date |
[1856] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 32 x 43 cm (12.5 x 16.75 in.) |
| Description |
Antislavery cartoon criticizing presidential nominees James Buchanan and John C. Breckenridge's support of pro-slavery forces
over freesoilers in the violent political struggle in "Bleeding Kansas" during the Democratic Convention of 1856 in Cincinnati.
Depicts a pro-slavery militia, carrying a flag labeled "Kansas and Liberty," that has marshalled a group of shackled, enslaved
African American men who wear loin-cloths. Several of them clasp their hands together and look with pleading expressions at
the white militiaman, behind them, and who carries a whip in his left hand and drives them forward. They march toward a settlement,
which has a "Free Soil and Fremont" flag where homes burn and settlers and cattle lay wounded or dead. In the right is the
corpse of an assaulted, white mother, who lies on the ground with her breasts exposed. Her naked, dead baby lies face down
over her left arm. In the upper left, Buchanan and Breckenridge, standing in front of seated convention delegates on a platform,
oversee the violence and comment about the freesoilers being a curse to the country who would surely leave if forced to work
for "10 cents a day."
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| Is referenced by |
Weitenkampf, p. 116 |
| Notes |
Title from item. |
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Date inferred from content. |
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Copyright statement printed on recto: Entered in according to act of congress in the Clerk’s Office of the district Court
for the Eastern District of Penna. By I. [sic.] Childs.
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Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of
gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush.
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RVCDC |
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Description revised 2021. |
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Access points revised 2021. |
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Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom
Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
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| Subject |
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Abolition movement -- Kansas -- 1850-1860. |
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Dead persons -- Kansas. |
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Destruction & pillage -- Kansas. |
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Infants -- Kansas. |
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Massacres -- Kansas. |
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Militias -- Kansas. |
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Mothers -- Kansas. |
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Political conventions -- United States. |
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Presidential elections -- United States -- 1850-1860. |
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Racism in popular culture. |
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Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories. |
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Enslaved persons -- Kansas. |
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Violence -- Kansas. |
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Enslaved men -- Kansas. |
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Enslavers -- Kansas. |
| Geographic subject |
Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861. |
| Genre |
Anti-slavery prints -- United States -- 1850-1860. |
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Lithographs -- 1850-1860. |
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Political cartoons -- 1850-1860. |
| Printer |
Childs, J. (John), publisher. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1856-10W [5760.F.95] |
| Accession number |
5760.F.95 |
