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Southern illustrated news. [Vol. 2, no. 17 (October 31, 1863)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06055 Author/Creator: Place Written: Richmond, Virginia Type: Newspaper Date: 1863/10/31 Pagination: 8 p. : Height: 40.6 cm, Width: 29.3 cm Order a Copy

With caricature of Lincoln on the back page, as Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, seeing a Black man in ragged attire appear as the ghost of Caesar.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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