[Cartoon: Southern cotton planter and Secretary Memminger, Harper's Weekly, 1861]
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A single-page satirical engraving from Harper's Weekly, 1861, with a caption. A Southern cotton planter and other shabbily dressed men confront Confederate Treasury Secretary Memminger in his office, asking how they will feed their slaves if the government will neither buy their cotton nor let them sell it elsewhere. Memminger answers evasively that the new government needs their money and portable property. It is a political cartoon on the Confederate cotton embargo early in the American Civil War, not a weaving or textile-technique document.
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- Date
- 1861
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- English
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