'Abe Lincoln's Last Card; Or Rouge-et-Noir'

'Abe Lincoln's Last Card; Or Rouge-et-Noir'

British Satirical View of Lincoln's Drafts of an Emancipation Proclamation

Despite some hopes that the announcement of the Lincoln Administrations plans on the matter of emancipation, international doubts over the Union position on slavery remained. This cartoon, a satirical take by Punch, highlights the view in Great Britain that such a move might be a last desperate move by Lincoln to sway the war, at this time in a bloody stalemate, more clearly in his favor. This view of the matter was shared by Confederates and similarly presented by their diplomats and sypathizers abroad.

John S. Tenniel

Printed by Punch

Image reprinted in Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) by William Shepard Walsh

October 18, 1862

Image Source digitized on the Internet Archive

In Public Domain

English