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Lincoln's Last Warning [Pres. Lincoln about to cut down tree (slavery) - warning a man to come down from the tree] – Vintage Print

Lincoln's Last Warning [Pres. Lincoln about to cut down tree (slavery) - warning a man to come down from the tree], 1862 — antique engraving
Lincoln's Last Warning [Pres. Lincoln about to cut down tree (slavery) - warning a man to come down from the tree], 1862. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare antique engraving captures Lincoln's Last Warning [Pres. Lincoln about to cut down tree (slavery) - warning a man to come down from the tree] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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*Lincoln's Last Warning* shows the president with an axe raised against a tree labeled slavery, while a man in its branches is told to climb down before it falls. The wood engraving ran in *Harper's Weekly* in October 1862, a few weeks after Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22. That proclamation warned Confederate states that enslaved people in areas still in rebellion would be declared free on January 1, 1863, unless those states returned to the Union. Read against that announcement, the "last warning" in the title is a deadline, and the cartoon presents emancipation as a political ultimatum.

Created / published1862
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsPres. File--LINCOLN--CARTOONS. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 6, (1862 October 11), p. 656. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Negro hist.--Slavery; Pres. I.; Cartoons, U.S.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,459 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128837

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