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Year Created: 1860
Publisher: Vanity Fair
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A small black man creates a huge shadow on an image of the world with a lantern. Even though the slave population of the South was not comparatively large, it garnered a huge amount of attention during the years leading up to the Civil War.
Source: Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), Substance and Shadow, 1860-01-21, GettDigital: Civil War Era Collection, Special Collections and College Archives, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2025-04-10, https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4016coll2/id/283/