07752ckm a2201633 a 4500 000141393 20231108103429.0 kj bo 010430k18611865xxunnn kneng d (CPomAG)AFR-762 1 3 10 ppl PPL dcrmg African Americana Civil War envelope collection [graphic]. 1861-1865. 94 items (envelopes) : wood engravings and lithographs ; envelopes 8 x 14 cm (3 x 5.5 in) or smaller. Title supplied by cataloger. Date inferred from content. Some copyrighted by Magee and Harbach & Brother. Various publishers including: Philadelphia publishers John Magee, S.C. Upham, Harbarch & Bro., and King & Baird; New York publisher Charles Magnus; and Charleston, S.C. publisher G.W. Falen. Other publishers located in New York, Buffalo, Hartford, Cincinnati, and Lancaster, Pa. Propaganda envelopes published by various publishers predominately utilizing racist caricatures and satires of African Americans in relation to Jefferson Davis, slavery, and secession to promote Union support of the Civil War. Satires utilize themes of inversion of social roles, retribution, and Northern superiority. Includes envelopes with same graphic and variant text or title; sexually explicit illustrations; images originally published in different media such as cartoons; and one Southern imprint promoting a united Confederacy as the safeguard of slavery. Some caricatures portray African Americans with exaggerated features and speaking in the vernacular. Includes images of enslaved people seeking freedom, as living "contraband of war," celebrating, or depicted as the shyster character Jim Crow; depictions of the "peculiar institution" of slavery showing a white enslaver in bed with an enslaved African American woman, her breast visible, and who is breastfeeding a white baby; secession equated to African American freedom seekers, economic destruction of the South, and the moral corruption of people emancipated from enslavement; Jefferson Davis caricatured as a traitor in execution and imprisonment scenes overseen by enslaved people; and views of enslaved people working on plantations with text declaring the end of "King Cotton." During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as “contraband of war.” Forms part of: Civil War Envelope Collection. See Steven Berry's "When mail was armor: envelopes of the Great Rebellion," Southern culture (Fall 1998). Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War envelopes. 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. Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 Caricatures and cartoons. African American caregivers Caricatures and cartoons. African American men Caricatures and cartoons. African American women Caricatures and cartoons. African Americans Caricatures and cartoons. Cotton plantations Confederate States of America. lctgm Crow, Jim (Fictitious character) 1860-1870. Fugitive slaves Confederate States of America. lctgm Miscegenation Confederate States of America. Racism in popular culture. Secession. 79751 Enslaved persons Confederate States of America Social conditions. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. 81762 Ephemera 1860-1870. gmgpc Lithographs 1860-1870. gmgpc Patriotic envelopes 1860-1870. gmgpc Wood engravings 1860-1870. gmgpc Enslaved people Satire. local Enslavers. local Free persons Civil War, 1861-1865. local Freedom seekers. local Multiracial relationship. local Women. 82663 SP3 African American History SP10 Philadelphia artists. Printer Falen, G.W., publisher. Printer Magee, James, publisher. Printer Magnus, Charles, publisher. Printer Upham, Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis), 1819-1885, publisher. Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. Printer Harbach & Bro., publisher. Printer King & Baird, publisher. Imprint UNITED STATES. 1861-1865. 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Imprint Falen, G.W., publisher. Harbach & Bro., publisher. Magee, James, publisher. King & Baird, publisher. Magnus, Charles, publisher. Upham, Samuel C. 1819-1885, publisher. McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.