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This illustration by cartoonist Thomas Nast was published in Harper's Weekly. It depicts a potential Exoduster being questioned by a watchful Irishman with the caption "An' what right have you, sure, to be afther laving your native place an' coming here? Spake!" In the background a sign reads "Free Soil Kansas".
Date: January 31, 1880
Item Number: 228704
Call Number: E185.1880 *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 228704
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1880s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Magazine - Illustrations
People - African Americans - Exodusters
People - European Americans - Irish
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Illustrations
Type of Material - Printed materials - Magazines - Harper's Weekly
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