Details
Title Slave nursing white baby envelope 2
Date 1861-1865
Physical description 1 envelope; 8 x 14 cm. (3 x 3.5 in.)
Notes Image: Depicts a white baby suckling his African American mother's exposed breast.
Caption: The probable source of the aspirations after Kingly State and Royal splendor arising among the "C.S.A."--Cotton States Aristocracy
Genre Patriotic envelopes 1860-1870
Subject Miscegenation
Coverage United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Is part of Civil War Envelope Collection
Civil War Envelope Collection
Has format TMP.objres.5412.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Identifier Caricatures - Blacks
Accession number Envelope C-BL-63varianta
Bibliographic citation William R. Weiss. The catalog of Union Civil War patriotic covers (Bethleham, Pa.: William R. Weiss, 1995).