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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
This print is an anti-McClellan broadside, contrasting Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln’s advocacy of equality and free
labor in the North to Democratic opponent McClellan’s alleged support of the Southern slave system.
The comparison is made in two scenes, "Union and Liberty" (left) and "Union and Slavery" (right). In the first, Lincoln shakes the hand of a bearded man wearing a square paper labor
cap, while black and white school children issue from a schoolhouse flying the American flag in the background. On the right, McClellan, in military uniform, shakes the hand of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, as a slave auction
takes place behind them.
Source: American Political Prints, 1766 - 1876: A Catalog of the Collections in the Library of Congress, 1991, by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. |
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