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Southern ideas of liberty ; New method of assorting the mail, as practised by southern slave-holders, or attack on the post office, Charleston, S.C

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Print portraying the violent supression of Southern abolitionism. Depicts a riotous mob around a gallows overseen by Judge Lynch with donkey's ears and a whip, and with the Constitution underfoot, who is seated upon bales of cotton, sugar, and tobacco. He sentences a white abolitionist who is being dragged to the gallows to be hanged by the neck "as a beacon to the Northern Fanatics; For supporting that clause of our Declaration viz. All men are created equal." Includes three lines of text below the image containing the judge's sentence.; Print portraying a raid of anti-abolitionists on the Charleston Post Office in July 1835. Depicts men removing and then pilfering mail-bags from the ransacked post-office and throwing to the ground abolitionist newspapers including "The Liberator," "Atlas," and "Commercial Gazette" while a riotous mob burns the papers. Posted on the Post Office is a poster titled "$20,000 Reward for Tappan" referring to the bounty placed by the city of New Orleans upon Arthur Tappan, founder and president of the American Anti-Slavery Society.; Advertised in 1836 editions of the anti-slavery newspapers The Liberator, published in Boston, and Emancipator, published in New York.

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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Anti Slavery Prints
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Lithographs
  5. Newspapers
  6. Political Cartoons
  7. Riots
  8. Slaver
  9. Southern States
  10. United States

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