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Title A grand slave hunt, or trial of speed for the presidency, between celebrated nags Black Dan, Lewis Cass, and Haynau. [graphic] / T.C., del.
Publisher [New York] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1852
Date [1852]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 36 x 55 cm (14 x 21.5 in.)
Description Cartoon criticizing presidential candidates Daniel Webster (i.e., Black Dan) and Lewis Cass's avid support for the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law during the election of 1852. Shows Webster, carrying a copy of the Fugitive Slave Law and a flag, leading a group of white men, including the lagging Michigan Senator Lewis Cass; the infamously cruel Hungarian General Baron Haynau with a pitcher of "Barclay Best" on his head (a symbolic reference to the brewery workers who attacked him in England); and President Millard Fillmore holding a Fugitive Slave Bill. They pursue an enslaved African American woman who runs clutching a baby in her arms and holding the hand of her young son. Additional figures in the background include Horace Mann, Massachusetts Congressman and opponent of the Compromise of 1850; an orator resembling Webster bombasting Mann before a group of kneeling white men admirers; a preaching white man minister with Bible in hand; and an African American woman freedom seeker with her child being tugged between a yelling man and a white man mercenary carrying handcuffs.
Is referenced by Weitenkampf p. 106
Notes Title from item.
Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf.
Purchase 1967.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
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.
Subject Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Haynau, Julius Jacob von, Baron -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Mann, Horace, 1796-1859 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
Abolition movement -- United States.
Abolitionists -- United States.
African American children -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Chasing.
Fugitive slaves -- Capture & imprisonment -- United States.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1852.
Slavery -- United States.
Enslaved persons -- United States.
Enslaved women -- United States.
Enslaved children -- United States.
Freedom seekers.
Freedom seekers -- Capture & imprisonment -- United States.
Mercenaries.
Enslaved people -- Satire.
Genre Anti-slavery prints -- United States -- 1850-1860.
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Political cartoons -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1852-7W [P.9676]
Accession number P.9676