America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War

Winslow Homer's cartoon criticizing the post-war attitudes of many Southern whites toward freedpeople depicts a leisured white planter admonishing his former slave, "My boy, we've toiled and taken care of you long enough - now, you've got to work!"




		"The Great Labor Question From a Southern Point of View," Harper's Weekly, July 29, 1865. Click image to enlarge.					Image 11 of 19 Winslow Homer's cartoon criticizing the post-war attitudes of many Southern whites toward freedpeople depicts a leisured white planter admonishing his former slave, "My boy, we've toiled and taken care of you long enough - now, you've got to work!"
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