Details
Contributor Cottrell, George W., publisher.
Title I'm not to blame for being white, sir! [graphic].
Publisher [Boston] : [Published by G.W. Cottrell]
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1862
Date [1862]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 39 x 32 cm (15 x12.5 in.)
Description Critical satire portraying the humanitarian sympathies of Massachusetts senator and abolitionist Charles Sumner as hypocritical toward whites. Depicts a well-dressed Sumner walking down a city street. He has stopped to hand coins to a barefoot, African American child carrying a basket. A white girl, attired in torn and worn clothes, carries sticks and holds out her hand to him, as well. Behind Sumner, two young white women witness the scene.
Is referenced by Weitenkampf, p. 136
Reilly, 1862-11
Notes Title from item.
Publication information supplied by Weitenkampf.
Probably drawn by Dominique C. Fabronius.
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1972, p. 63.
Purchase 1972.
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 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 -- Portraits.
Abolitionists -- United States.
African American children -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Girls -- United States.
Poor persons -- United States.
Poverty -- United States.
Race Relations -- United States.
Genre Anti-abolition prints -- United States -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Printer Cottrell, George W., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1862-11 [8033.F.2]
Accession number 8033.F.2