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Engraving: "'A philosophic cock' attributed to James Akin, Newburyport, Massachusetts, ca.1804." Depicts a caricature of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Date
circa 1804
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Source
James C. Kelly and B. S. Lovell. Thomas Jefferson: His Friends and Foes. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 101, No. 1, "In the Modest Garb of Pure Republicanism": Thomas Jefferson as Reformer and Architect (Jan., 1993), pp. 133- 157 / American Antiquarian Society
Author
attributed to James Akin
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Caricature lampooning the supposedly ethereal (phiolospohi) Jefferson and his relationship with his young slave quadroon-Sally Hemmings
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