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Thursday, November 27, 2014

"Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving" by NYC cartoonist Thomas Nast

After the Civil War, Nast foresaw America in his "Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving" as the place where everybody had a place at the table. As he considered moving to Harlem to escape hostility from racists, the abolitionist Protestant cartoonist Thomas Nast provided provided some of the most famous editorial cartoons upholding the human dignity of African Americans against the claims of slavocrats.

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