Nast’s ‘emancipation’: Omission of the Fugitive
On January 24th 1863, just over three weeks after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Harper’s Weekly featured Thomas Nast’s cartoon, ‘The Emancipation of the Negroes, January 1863—The Past and the Future’ (see fig. 1) as their weekly centrepiece. Published during the Civil War, Nast’s image...