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Question marks surround
“Slavery is dead”

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We observed a gavel.

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This serves to represent freedom form slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation.

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A slave being sold

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sword that says justice

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People in power were turning a blind eye to what was happening

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Why is a skeleton holding the gavel?

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if made today, it would be more animated and have more color

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is that A. Lincoln?

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What is the difference in the two sides of the picture? Why is the person blindfolded on the right but not the left?

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The statue on the left has her eyes open while the one on the right is blindfolded

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Enslaved men who were being sold or tortured

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“Land of the free”

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Newspaper making a political statement

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Statue on the right has a blindfold on

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The emancipation proclamation was supposed to free slaves but many of them refused as seen in the image

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Slaves for sale

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This looked like it was made to show the problem with how slavery was continued as a punishment for a crime despite the 13, 14, & 15 amendment & the emancipation proclamation

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This political cartoon is to demonstrate a mockery of the term “slavery is dead”

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Palm trees representing southern geography

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Why is one statue blindfolded while the other has her eye opened?

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Why is there a bird hidden in the image

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What is the significance of the statue being blind folded in the second image?

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Whipped for punishment for crime

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I think this political cartoon is important because it shows how slaves are supposed to be free, however, some turn a blind eye to this mistreatment that continues to occur.

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The symbol for Justice is allowing “justice” to be served but not looking/blindfolded because it is wrong and unjust

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What is the symbolic meaning of the Skeleton with the gavel and whip?