Item Summary

Subject: Political cartoon depicting James Buchanan, probably Stephen A. Douglas, and other pro-slavery supporters boiling and burning anti-slavery documents in a cauldron which reads "Double double, Free state trouble. Till Fremont men are straw & stubble." Buchanan, standing at left, holds a copy of the Ostend Manifesto, and the man to his left, possibly Douglas, holds a whip and slave chains and is seated. Other men hold pro slavery documents, and one holds Preston Brooks' cane used in the beating of Charles Sumner. At the foreground, a man kneels and blows on the fire, with a pistol labled "Laws of Kansas" in his back pocket.

Descriptive Information

Title
A pro slavery incantation scene. Or Shakspeare improved. : See Macbeth.
Call Number
E-North 38/GC024/19th-Century American Caricatures/Normal/19th c./Caricatures GA 2024.03017
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcqf85nq48x
Publisher
[United States : s.n., not before 1856]
Language
English
Date Created
1856
Extent
1 print : lithograph, b&w ; image and text 27.5 x 31 cm., on sheet 32.5 x 43 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated

Discovery Information

Subject
Buchanan, James 1791-1868—Caricatures and cartoons
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616—Macbeth Act 1. Scene 3.
Slavery—Political aspects—United States—History—19th century
Caricatures

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f55ec5c2-88ab-4b20-9449-556e640099fe/manifest