Title
Satire on Republican platform's antislavery plank
Caption
The rail candidate' The antislavery plank was a controversial feature of the 1860 Republican platform. Here Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln is shown uncomfortably straddling a rail--a dual allusion to the platform and to Lincoln's backwoods origins--carried by a black man and abolitionist editor of the New York 'Tribune' Horace Greeley.
Date
1860
Credit line
Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library
Reference
ARP18A17_048
License type
Rights managed
Available size
60,0Mb (5,0Mb) / 17,7in x 13,2in / 5315 x 3945 (300dpi)