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The Union As It Was Harper's Weekly. The title alludes to the old ca. 1862 Copperhead campaign slogan "The Union as it was, the Constitution as it is". Portrays a black family between a lynched body hanging from a tree and the remains of a burning schoolhouse, with the caption "Worse than Slavery".
Source

Cartoon by Thomas Nast, published in Harper's Weekly, via blackhistory.harpweek.com
Date

24 October 1874
Author

Thomas Nast
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