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“Master and Slave”

Topic:
Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
Thomas Nast
Date:
October 30, 1880, p. 701
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This Thomas Nast cartoon emphatically communicates the message that the dominate base of the Democratic party is composed of former Confederates and their sympathizers. The Southern faction is personified as a long-haired, grimacing Confederate soldier who is the slave-master of presidential nominee General Winfield Hancock and the Democratic party. Hancock is a slave, chained to a "Solid South" post and threatened by the lash (cat-o-nine-tails) of his Southern Democratic master. Quotes from Congressman Joseph C. S. Blackburn of Kentucky and former Confederate secretary of state Robert Toombs of Georgia, along with the inscription on the post, compare Southern solidarity against the Union in 1860 and for Hancock's election in 1880.
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