| Creator |
Currier & Ives. |
| Title |
The dis-united states. Or the Southern Confederacy [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1861 |
| Date |
[1861] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 32 x 43 cm (12.5 x 17 in.) |
| Description |
Cartoon mocking the inherent dissension within the newly formed Confederacy depicting the Confederate state leaders as conniving
self-opportunists led by the Governor of the first state to secede, South Carolina's Francis Pickens. Pickens, armed with
a whip and pistol, is astride the back of an enslaved African American man on all fours, and demands as a "file leader," obedience
from Stephen R. Mallory of Florida, William Yancey of Alabama, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, Joseph Brown of Georgia, and
an unidentified white man from Louisiana. The Confederates seated upon representations of their state interests (a wrecked
hull, bales of cotton, and a barrel of sugar) ignore Pickens and demand acquiescence to their different state needs including
coastal control, control of profits from the sale of cotton, and increased bonds and duties as compensation for separating
from the Union.
|
| Is referenced by |
Weitenkampf, p. 128 |
|
Reilly, 1861-6 |
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date inferred from content. |
|
Date of publication supplied by Reilly. |
|
Purchase 1964. |
|
RVCDC |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
|
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War. |
|
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 |
Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Yancey, William Lowndes, 1814-1863 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Racism in popular culture. |
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Secession -- Southern States. |
|
Slavery -- United States. |
|
Enslaved men -- United States. |
| Geographic subject |
Confederate States of America -- Politics and government. |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| Genre |
Lithographs -- 1860-1870. |
|
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1861-6R [6612.F] |
| Accession number |
6612.F |
