Breaking that “Backbone”Images of Emancipation and

the Great Emancipator

Leigh Ann Gardner, M.A. StudentCenter for Historic Preservation

Middle Tennessee State University

Breaking that “Backbone”Benjamin Henry Day, Artist

“Political caricature No. 3, The Abolition Catastrophe. Or the November smash-up”

G.W. Bromley &Co., lithographer

“Writing the Emancipation”Adalbert Volck, Artist

“President Lincoln Writing the Proclamation of Freedom, January 1st, 1863”

David Gilmour Blythe, Artist

“Emancipation” - Cartes de VisiteG.G. Fish, Artist

“Watch meeting, Dec. 31, 1862-Waiting for the hour.”Heard & Mosley, Photographer

“Emancipation”Thomas Nast, Artist

“Emancipation. And by Virtue of the Fact . . .”J.L. Magee, Publisher

“Emancipation of the Slaves”J. Waeshle, Publisher

“Behold! Oh America Your Sons”Charles Shober, Lithographer