I'm not to blame for being white, sir! [graphic]. [1862]

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I'm not to blame for being white, sir! [graphic]. [1862]

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A political print produced during the Massachusetts state election of 1862. The image depicts Massachusetts senator and abolitionist Charles Sumner (1811-1874) accosted by two young beggars. Sumner is shown giving coins to a poor black girl while a white girl in rags protests, saying "I'm not to blame for being white, sir!" Sketched faintly in the background are two well-dressed women who observe the incident. A printed subtitle under title reads: "True, my girl, but charity ought to begin where it is most needed, and you, certainly are the better off, having more friends and less oppressors."

1 print on tan wove paper : lithograph, b&w ; image with text 33 x 23 cm., sheet 38 x 29 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Charles Sumner was born on January 6, 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Relief Jacob and Charles Pinckney Sumner. He graduated from Boston Latin School (1826), Harvard University (1830), and Harvard Law School (1833), and joined the abolitionist movement in Boston, centered in his home neighborhood of Beacon Hill. He acted as co-counsel in a case, Roberts v. City of Boston, that challenged the segregation of Boston’s public school system. In 1852, Sumner was elected to the United States Senate. ...

People's Party (Mass.)

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Republican Party (Mass.)

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