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This Album contains Cartoons and Images that highlight the antislavery movement in the Antebellum period through the Civil War. The abolition of the slave trade Or the inhumanity of dealers in human flesh exemplified in Captn. Kimber's treatment of a young Negro girl of 15 for her virjen (sic) modesty. Teaching Notes.
Artists in the Union and the Confederacy featured women prominently in their work to represent the general civilian experience of the war. Women were also featured to explore how the war was breaking down antebellum gender expectations.
The subject matter of these political cartoons includes slavery and key events and figures in the mid-19th century abolitionist and anti-abolitionist movement. Several post Civil War images deal with reconstruction and post slavery south.
The capture of an unprotected female, or the close up of the rebellion. [graphic] J. Cameron. Cartoon satirizing the capture of the Confederate president Jefferson Davis by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865. Davis,disguised as a woman, is surrounded at gunpoint by jeering soldiers.
4 Φεβ 2020 · Footnote 66 Ordinary abolitionist women, black and white, became central to sustaining this unpopular cause in the decades before the Civil War. Abolitionist women developed a rhetoric of “sisterhood” amid a cultural milieu preoccupied with chattel slavery.
The adversities of disability caused in combat are shared by men and women today. While there were no female soldiers in the Civil War , black women were nurses, scouts, or spies, like Harriet Tubman, a scout for the second South Carolina Volunteers.
While individuals expressed their dissatisfaction with the social role of women during the early years of the United States, a more widespread effort in support of women’s rights began to emerge in the 1830s. Women and men joined the antislavery movement in order to free enslaved Africans.
