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American Civil War Wood Engravings From British Punch Magazine

In the remainder of these Punch prints of the American Civil War Abraham Lincoln is not pictured. They nevertheless are powerful images that tell us a lot about both England and the United States during the Civil War years.

"DIVORCE A VINCULO, Mrs. Carolina Asserts her Right to "Larrup" her Nigger"
January 19, 1861
(South Carolina defiantly secedes)

"'CAESAR IMPERATOR!' OR, THE AMERICAN GLADIATORS"
 May 18, 1861
(Blacks watch white Civil War gladiators fight)

"THE 'SENSATION' STRUGGLE IN AMERICA"
June 7, 1862
(Civil War leads to bankruptcy and disunion)

"THE BLACK CONSCRIPTION, When Black Meets Black Then Comes The End (?) Of War"
 September 26, 1863
(North joyously meets South, speak Ebonics)

 

 

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