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Ho! For Salt River!

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08714 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Print Date: 1865-1870 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 8.5 cm, Width: 11 cm Order a Copy

Undated woodcut cartoon attacking Freedmen's Bureau and freed blacks. Supposed tour boat "excursion" on the "Radical Demigog" up "Salt River." Contains an image of a black man rowing a boat full of others participating in the "excursion." Includes remarks printed underneath the image describing the facetious excursion in a racist and sarcastic way.

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