File:Declaration of Equality-Justice. Five More Wanted, from Harper's Weekly, (August 12, 1876), p. 656.jpg

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Cartoon decrying the Hamburg massacre of July 1876

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English: Declaration of Equality-Justice. Five More Wanted, from Harper's Weekly, (August 12, 1876), p. 656. By Thomas Nast

Medium: Wood Engraving Dimensions: 52.9 x 35.5 cm (image); 56.4 x 39.8 cm (sheet)

In this cartoon, the personification of Justice holds a skewed balance of justice. She is vexed by its inequality - one white man to six black men. White men were responsible for the murder of six black men after a race riot at Hamburg, South Carolina, in July 1876. She is bounded by the founding documents of the American republic: the Declaration of Independence (left) and the Constitution (right), with the artist emphasizing the latter's guarantees of republican government and equal protection. In the background, wall posters name white terrorist groups in the South: the Ku Klux Klan, the White League, and the White Liners.
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Source https://art.famsf.org/thomas-nast/declaration-fof-equality-justice-five-more-wanted-harpers-weekly-august-12-1876-p-656
Author Thomas Nast

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-123456] https://lccn.loc.gov/2010644213

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