The House that Jeff (Davis) Built

[infrogmation]

Whatever we might say about Jefferson Davis now, I think it would be hard to say any more eloquently than William Claypoole Johnson did in 1863, with his cartoon/poem "The House That Jeff Built".  Check it out.


http://infrogmation.tumblr.com/post/160562720116/infrogmation-the-house-that-jeff-built-cartoon

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I lived to see Jefferson Davis hanging... after an inexplicably long delay. My Great-Grandfather expected to see it in 1865. http://infrogmation.tumblr.com/post/160598605166/infrogmation-jeff-davis-on-his-own-platform-or

Tumblr removed it, presumably for anti-Confederate content?

[infrogmation]

For some reason, my post on Tumblr is gone - did someone complain that it was hate speech against Jefferson Davis and enslavers?

Anyway, the 1863 cartoon can be seen on Wikimedia Commons at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_House_That_Jeff_Built

Though in my Tumblr post I had it nicely laid out panel by panel. *Shrug*