The house that Jeff built,1863,Jefferson Davis,Gustave Toutant Beauregard,1863

Title: The house that Jeff built
Related Names:
Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865.
Date Created/Published: Boston : Drawn and published by David Claypool Johnston, 1863.
Summary: An extended and bitter indictment of Jefferson Davis and the Southern slave system. The work consists of a series of twelve vignettes with accompanying verse, following the scheme of the nursery rhyme 'The House That Jack Built.' The same nursery rhyme was adapted for some of the bank war satires during the Jacksonian era. The vignettes are as follows: 1. the 'House,' showing the door to a slave pen; 2. bales of cotton, 'By rebels call'd king;' 3. slaves at work picking cotton, 'field-chattels that made cotton king;' 4. slave families despondently awaiting auction; 5. slave auctioneer, 'the thing by some call'd a man;' 6. slave shackles; 7. slave merchants; 8. a slave breeder negotiating in an interior with a slave merchant; on the wall appear portraits of Jefferson Davis and Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard; 9. a cat-o-nine-tails; 10. a slave driver flogging a bound female slave; 11. Jefferson Davis, 'the arch-rebel Jeff whose infamous course / Has bro't rest to the plow, and made active the hearse.' 12. symbols of slavery, an auctioneer's gavel, whip, auctionnotices, and shackles lying torn and broken with a notice of Jeff Davis's execution because ' . . . Jeffs infamous house is doom'd to come down.'
Notes:
Drawn and published by David Claypool Johnston, Boston.
Entered . . . 1863 by D.C. Johnston . . . Massachusetts.
The Library's impression of the work was deposited for copyright on July 3, 1863. The Boston Athenaeum owns Johnston's preliminary pencil drawings for the individual scenes in this work.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Citizens in Conflict, no. 40-43.
Johnson, no. 75.
Weitenkampf, p. 138.
Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1863-9.
Subjects:
Beauregard, G. T.--(Gustave Toutant),--1818-1893.
Davis, Jefferson,--1808-1889.
Cotton pickers--Southern States--1860-1870.
Cotton plantations--Southern States--1860-1870.
Slavery--United States--1860-1870.
Etchings--1860-1870.
Political cartoons--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2008661652/
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