A pro slavery incantation scene. Or Shakspeare improved [graphic] : See Macbeth.

[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.

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

United States.

ART File S528m1 no.86 (size L)