A pro slavery incantation scene. Or Shakspeare improved [graphic] : See Macbeth. [Title transcribed from original item]

A pro slavery incantation scene. Or Shakspeare improved [graphic] : See Macbeth. [Title transcribed from original item]

[United States] : [s.n.], [not before 1856]

1 print : lithograph, b&w ; image and text 27.5 x 31 cm, on sheet 32.5 x 43 cm

paper

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.

Title printed in lower margin.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007. Shakespeare in American Life (catalog entry 34)

United States.

ART File S528m1 no.86 (size L)