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This political caricature uses a highly offensive racial epithet that was a common colloquialism in 1860, pointing to the casual racism that permiated American culture at that date. The image shows a Black man imprisoned in a kind of wooden jail to comment on Abraham Lincoln's indeciveness towards slavery when he first ran for the presidency.
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Title: "The Nigger" in the Woodpile
Artist:
Probably after Louis Maurer (American (born Germany), Biebrich 1832–1932 New York)
Publisher:
Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907)
Sitter:
Abraham Lincoln (American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809–1865 Washington, D.C.)
Sitter:
Horace Greeley (American, 1811–1872)
Date: 1860
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions:
Image: 9 1/8 × 14 1/2 in. (23.2 × 36.8 cm)
Sheet: 13 9/16 × 18 1/8 in. (34.4 × 46 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952
Accession Number: 52.632.197
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