National Museum of African American History and Culture
<I>Patience on a Monument</I>
Thomas Nast, American, 1840 - 1902 · October 8, 1868
A rare broadside supplement to the Cincinnati Gazette, "Patience on a Monument," shows a freed slave sitting atop a monument that lists evils perpetrated against blacks. A dead woman and children lie at the bottom of the monument, while violence and fires rage in the background.
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