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Collection Reference Number GLC08714
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1860s 
Title Ho! For Salt River!
Date ca. 1865-1870
Document Type Artwork
Content Description Undated woodcut cartoon attacking Freedmen's Bureau and freed blacks. Supposed tour boat "excursion" on the "Radical Demigog" up "Salt River." Contains an image of a black man rowing a boat full of others participating in the "excursion." Includes remarks printed underneath the image describing the facetious excursion in a racist and sarcastic way.
Subjects Reconstruction  Freemen  African American History  Politics  
Place written s.l.
Theme The American Civil War; African Americans; Reconstruction
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information Other collections have dated similar versions of this card circa 1864-1880.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945