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Principle vs. Interest
- Creator:
- Stephen S.
- Location:
- South Carolina
- Origin Date:
- 1855-1870
- Materials:
- paper, pen and ink
- Measurements:
- overall: 11 3/4 in x 9 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.081.0680
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Three-dimensional Objects
Description
This is an engraving for Vanity Fair. It features two white men, one overweight and standing up, and the other thin and seated on a bale of cotton. They have smug looks on their faces. Behind them is a black man, presumably a slave, that is stuck in one of the bales of cotton, with his head and limbs protruding out. he tries to flail his arms and legs looks for help. A sign in the background reads "Jeff Davis Cotton Broker". Below the title is this text: "Mr. Bull--My Colored Brother, don't be irrepressible--the unhappy condition to which the opressor has reduced you, enlists my warmest sympathy--but, then, really, one cannot know friends in trade." Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum