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Pamphlet Cover, Abraham Africanus I, His Secret Life, As Revealed Under the Mesmeric Influence, Mysteries of the White House
ca 1864
Pro-southern New Yorkers used the city's printing presses to affirm white supremacy and the right of southerners to own slaves. Like other Manhattan publishers, J.F. Feeks issues anti-abolitionist and anti-Lincoln books from his Ann Street offices during the 1860s. In his satire Abraham Africanus I, published before the election of 1864, Feeks portrays Lincoln selling his soul to the devil in exchange for the right to become a despot. "Africanus" refers to Lincoln's support for the Emancipation Proclamation. |