"The Nigger" in the Woodpile
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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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