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The results of abolitionism! [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A65153
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Title
The results of abolitionism! [graphic].
Publisher
United States : [publisher not identified]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1835
Date
[ca. 1835]
Physical Description
1 print : woodcut ; sheet 61 x 47 cm (23.5 x 18.75 in.)
Description
Cartoon reflecting the fear among Northern white workers of job competition with free African Americans. Depicts African American men bricklayers, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in vernacular, on a construction site giving orders to white laborers in a reversal of roles. The laborers work on a large multi-storied brick building fronted by scaffolding and a ladder. The African American supervisors hold trowels and stand at the top of the scaffolding. They hurl orders and abuse at white workers exclaiming: "Bring up the mortar you white rascals" and "You bog-trotters, come along with them bricks." An African American man standing on the ground, attired as a dandy, exclaims, "White man hurry up them bricks." A white man climbs the ladder and two white men work on the ground shoveling and picking up bricks. Another white man stands and says, "Sambo hurry up the white laborers."
Notes
Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Bricklayers -- United States.
Construction -- United States.
Race relations -- United States
Working class -- United States.
African American laborers.
Genre
Anti-abolition prints
Political cartoons -- 1830-1840.
Woodcuts -- 1830-1840.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Political Cartoons - 1835 - Res [5780.F.1]
Accession number
5780.F.1
In Collections
Political Cartoons Collection
African American History Political Cartoons
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