Divorce à vinculo : Mrs. Carolina asserts her right to "larrup" her nigger.
Symbolic of all Confederate states, this cartoon shows [South] Carolina, as a woman defending her rights to reprimand her slave, as the Union, portrayed by a man, stands angrily and disapprovingly. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the United States, on December 20, 1860 after the el...
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
[Bradbury, Agnew, & Co.],
[1870?]
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| Summary: | Symbolic of all Confederate states, this cartoon shows [South] Carolina, as a woman defending her rights to reprimand her slave, as the Union, portrayed by a man, stands angrily and disapprovingly. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the United States, on December 20, 1860 after the election of Abraham Lincoln. |
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| Item Description: | "The American civil war was on the eve of commencement, and the slave was thought to be the casus belli. --January, 1861." Detached from: Cartoons from Punch by John Tenniel, First series, leaf "48". Originally published in: Punch, January 19, 1861. |
| Physical Description: | 1 print : black and white ; on sheet 35 x 27 cm |