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English: Panel from 1863 cartoon "The House That Jeff Built" by David Claypoole Johnston, satirizing Jefferson Davis, slavery, and the Confederacy.

Panel 8.

"Here the slave breeder parts with his own flesh to a trader down south, in the heart of secesh, thus trader and breeder secure without fail, the lasting attachment of him with a tail, who owns the small soul of that thing call’d a man, whose trade is to sell all the chattels he can, from yearlings to adult’s of life’s longest span, in and out of the house that Jeff built."

Cartoon shows slaver selling his own son by a slave mother. In background hang portraits of Jefferson Davis and P.G.T. Beauregard.
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Source 1863 cartoon "The House That Jeff Built" by David Claypoole Johnston
Author David Claypoole Johnston

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