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Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Negroes and religion. Disciplina et regula ordinis flagellantium [Discipline of the order of flagellants] [graphic] : The Episcopal Church at the South. To the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES 1862
Date [ca. 1862?]
Physical Description 2 photographs : albumen on card mount; mount 7 x 10 cm (2.5 x 4 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Copy photograph of an abolitionist satire containing a montage of scenes mocking the pro-slavery dioceses from the seceded Southern states absent from the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York in 1862. Probably related to an earlier pamphlet of the same title satirically "promoting" the policy that the church's African American communicants be treated as the South treats the enslaved people. A devilish figure with wings inscribed with the names of Confederate states, holding a "Testimonial" scroll under his arm, thumbs his nose and unlocks the door of the "House of Bishops" at the "General Convention." Figures pray at an altar near an animated preacher while stating, "We welcome our friends." A white man whips a bare-chested and bare-footed African American enslaved man, who kneels with his hands bound to a post. Two white women watch the events from the side of their dilapidated wooden house. During the Civil War, the Southern dioceses became the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
See related pamphlet Negroes and religion: The church at the South. Memorial to the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. (United States : s.n., 1856?). (LCP Am 1856 Neg 18399.O.9).
Originally part of a McAllister Civil War scrapbook of humorous prints and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886 [5780.F.52h]. Purchase 1999 [P.9758.3].
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 Episcopal Church
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Devil.
Flagellation -- Confederate States of America.
Racism in popular culture.
Slavery and the church -- Episcopal Church.
Slavery -- Confederate States of America.
Enslaved persons -- Confederate States of America.
Whipping.
Women -- Confederate States of America.
Enslaved men -- Confederate States of America.
Enslavers -- Confederate States of America.
Genre Anti-slavery prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Satires -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5780.F.52h; P.9758.3]
Accession number 5780.F.52h;
P.9758.3