The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Impending Crisis

Anonymous. "The Impending Crisis." Vanity Fair, January 14, 1860, 35.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
illustration
Abstract

An African American woman's hand is lifted past her head, ready to come down on the behind of the boy she steadies over her knee.