- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Thomas Nast Cartoon
- Creator:
- Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
- Publisher:
- Harper's Weekly
- Date of Original:
- 1868
- Subject:
- Men--Georgia--Camilla
African American men--Georgia--Camilla
Freedmen--United States
Massacres--Georgia--Camilla
Knives--Georgia--Camilla
Suffrage--Georgia--Camilla
African Americans--Suffrage--Georgia--Camilla
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Camilla
Civil rights--Georgia--Camilla - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Mitchell County, Camilla, 31.23129, -84.21046
- Medium:
- illustrations (layout features)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This political Thomas Nast cartoon from Harper's Weekly depicts Mitchell County whites holding freed Blacks down after the Camilla Massacre in 1868. The massacre was one of the more violent episodes in Reconstruction Georgia.
Image of an illustration by Thomas Nast that depicts Mitchell County, Georgia whites holding freed Blacks down after the Camilla Massacre in 1868. Three men stand on the back of an African American man. One of the men holds a club in his hand, and another holds a knife. The men join their other hands in solidarity. The Camilla Massacre resulted in the deaths of approximately a dozen people and the wounding of nearly thirty others. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/camilla-massacre/m-1272/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Harper's Weekly
From Harper's Weekly - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/camilla-massacre
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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