Slaves Celebrating Liberation mb-height 6283 President Andrew Johnson (who had

President Andrew Johnson (who had taken office on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln)

he was imprisoned in the Tower of London the following year and murdered

He stands next to his cart of gingerbread holding up a piece to passers by

showing rooftop damage and fallen walls in buildings

Slaves Celebrating Liberation mb-height 6283 President Andrew Johnson (who had'Slaves Celebrating Liberation', c1860s. A racist depiction of slaves at the mansion of Robert W Barnwell, Confederate leader. The music on the piano is upside down, ridiculling their illiteracy. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857 1900, by John A Kouwenhoven, published by Harper & Brothers, (New York, London, 1938).