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Satire reflecting the Northern fears that Britain's economic ties with Southern cotton growers will cause the British government to relinquish its anti-slavery stance in order to support the Confederacy. Depicts a plump John Bull, representing Great Britain, centered between a kneeling slave and a bale of cotton in a storage shed. As he touches the hair of the slave with one hand and holds a piece of the cotton from the bale in the other, he declares cotton is certainly more useful than wool. Behind him to his left stand a frowning African American man, and a crying Northern gentleman, and to his right a smiling Southern planter.; Possible publisher supplied by Murrell.

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The Library Company of Philadelphia

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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Anti Slavery Prints
  3. Caricatures And Cartoons
  4. Civil War
  5. Civil War, 1861 1865
  6. Foreign Relations
  7. Great Britain
  8. History
  9. John Bull (Symbolic Character)
  10. Lithographs
  11. Political Cartoons
  12. Slaver
  13. Slavery
  14. Textile Industry
  15. United States

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