File:A proslavery incantation scene, or Shakespeare improved (20348406256).jpg

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English: Antislavery print from 1856 using an allegory of the cauldron scene from Macbeth to depict James Buchanan and the Democrats' contempt for the freesoilers following the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Depicts Buchanan, Stephen Douglas, and several animated Democrats, speaking in Shakespearian rhyme, gathered around a boiling cauldron fueled by burning antislavery literature and labeled, "Double double, Free State trouble, Till Fremont men are straw & stubble." Beside Buchanan, Douglas, holding a whip and shackles, calls for the blood of freemen and revels in the woe caused by his Kansas-Nebraska bill. Many of the Democrats gathered around the kettle are depicted as pro-slavery Southerners and refer favorably to Preston Brook's caning of Charles Sumner while others call out items to be thrown into the pot, such as "fillet of a Free-soil Frog" and the "Ostend Conference plot." 5760.F.91
Link to record on ImPAC, the Library Company’s digital collections catalog: http://lcpdams.librarycompany.org:8881/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=130227&silo_library=GEN01
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  • African Americana Graphics Collection
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  • Library Company of Philadelphia
  • African Americana
  • Cartoons
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  • anti-slavery
  • American Civil War
  • Shakespeare
  • Macbeth
  • James Buchanan
  • rhyme
  • Free Soil Party
  • Kansas-Nebraska bill
  • Political cartoons
  • Lithographs
  • Cauldron
  • Incantation

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