'John Bull Makes a Discovery'

'John Bull Makes a Discovery'

An American Prediction Concerning British Slavery Sentiment

This print, likely published in the first years of the war, conveys some of the fears Americans had concerning the sympathies and interests of Britain. Would the anti-slavery sympathies that had grown over the course of the 19th century falter in the face of its economic interests regarding the use of Southern cotton in its textile industries?

Currier & Ives, New York, 1862/1863

Currier & Ives, Digitized at the Library of Congress

1862/1863