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This was just one of a series of racist posters supporting the candidacy of white-supremacist Hiester Clymer in the Pennsylvania governor's race in 1866. The caricature of an ex-slave lounging idly while white men work captures the argument of President Johnson and others against the Freedman's Bureau, black suffrage, and other aspects of the Radical Republican reconstruction program.

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