| Creator |
Currier & Ives. |
| Title |
"The Nigger" in the woodpile. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia |
| Date |
1860 |
| Physical Description |
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 35 x 46 cm (13.5 x 18 in.) |
| Description |
Racist political cartoon satirizing the Republican Party platform during the 1860 presidential election. In the right, shows
Abraham Lincoln saying, “Little did I think when I split these rails, that they would be the means of elevating me to my present
position" as he sits on top of a woodpile labeled, “Republican Platform.” An enslaved African American man, portrayed as a
racist caricature with exaggerated features, sits within the intertwined rails of the platform. In the left, New York Tribune
editor Horace Greeley is confronted by "Young America," depicted as a white man, who represents the progressive wing of the
Democratic Party. Greeley reassures him, "...you can safely vote our ticket, for we have no connection with the Abolitionist
party, but our Platform is composed entirely of rails split by our candidate." "Young America" protests "It's no use old fellow!
You can't pull that wool over my eyes, for I can see 'the Nigger' peeping through the rails," and he points his finger to
the African American man in the woodpile.
|
| Is referenced by |
Weitenkampf, p. 123 |
|
Reilly, 1860-3 |
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date from the copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk’s
Office of the District Court for the Southern Distt. of N.Y.
|
|
Library Company, Annual report, 1967, p. 53. |
|
Accessioned 1999. |
|
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 |
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Democratic Party (U.S.) -- Elections |
|
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- Elections. |
|
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- Platforms. |
|
Abolition movement -- United States. |
|
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Political platforms -- United States. |
|
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1860. |
|
Slavery -- United States. |
|
Enslaved persons -- United States. |
|
Racism in popular culture. |
|
Enslaved men -- United States. |
| Genre |
Anti-abolition prints -- United States -- 1860-1870. |
|
Lithographs -- 1860-1870. |
|
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1860-30R [P.9677] |
| Accession number |
P.9677 |
