Image: Pompey and Master -- Massa linkum

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Description: Racist cartoon printed in response to the emancipation of slaves by the U.S. government, commenting on how slaves will continue working for their masters afterwards anyway, and will be very cheap. Printed on border: "Pompey. "What day ob de month id dis, Massa?" "Master. "Twenty-sixth December. Why?" "Pompey. "Oh! Cause you knows Massa LINKUM he gib us our Papers on de First January. God bless um ; and now I wants to say as how you allus was a good Massa, and so I'll gib you a Mont's Notice to git anudder Boy. Niggers is powerful cheap now, Massa!"
Title: Pompey and Master -- Massa linkum
Credit: NYPL Digital Gallery; Mid-Manhattan
Author: Unknown, 1863
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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