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Currier & Ives.
8876
"The Nigger" in the woodpile.
[graphic].
New York :
Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St.,
1860.
1 print :
lithograph ;
sheet 35 x 46 cm (13.5 x 18 in.)
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.
Weitenkampf,
p. 123
Reilly,
1860-3
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.
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.
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.
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African American men
Caricatures and cartoons.
Political platforms
United States.
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Presidents
United States
Election
1860.
Slavery
United States.
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Enslaved persons
United States.
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Racism in popular culture.
Anti-abolition prints
United States
1860-1870.
local
Lithographs
1860-1870.
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Political cartoons
1860-1870.
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Enslaved men
United States.
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African American History
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PA. Philadelphia.
Library Company of Philadelphia
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