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"Two Views of a Dead Rabbit"
This essay examines two images of members of an Irish street gang in the mid-nineteenth century that address issues of immigrant stereotyping, urban immigration, poverty, and reform in the wake of large-scale Irish immigration. The link includes the [...]
Tags: Five Points, Irish Immigration
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Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)
White into Black: Seeing Race, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery in Antebellum America
In this "Lesson in Looking" from the website Picturing U.S. History, historian Sarah L. Burns explains how to unpack antebellum depictions of slavery and enslaved people, including Eyre Crowe's 1862 painting The Slave Auction.
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Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)