Page 567: A Democratic Party broadside from the election of 1866 in Pennsylvania uses racist imagery to argue that government assistance aids lazy former slaves at the expense of hardworking whites. Credit: Reproduced from the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, LC-USZ62-40764.
Page 568: A Democratic ribbon from the election of 1868, with Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair, Jr., the party’s candidates for president and vice president. The ribbon illustrates the explicit appeals to racism that marked the campaign. Credit: Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
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