At The South

January 28, 1860, page 64

"Now den Julius! If yer ain't a good litte nigger, mudder'l call de big ole Bobolitionist and let
um run away wid yer."

Note:

Akin to the cartoons of D. H. Strother, this carton by Ben Day takes the view that abolitionists are a source of fear, not freedom, for (young) black slaves. The slave mother invokes abolitionists, like she might have any dreaded figure of a child’s imagination, in order to scare her son into behaving properly.

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