Life, 1904-12-03 · page 19 of 22
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This cartoon satirizes the economic anxiety of formerly wealthy Southern planters after the Civil War. Daniel J. Sully, identified as a "dethroned Cotton King," tells a story about an elderly enslaved man who demands to quit his job because the new manager stopped physically beating him. The joke's bitter irony: the worker claims he's losing money because he no longer receives the quarters the old manager would guiltily give him after beatings. He preferred the brutal system because it was economically predictable, even profitable. The satire targets post-war Southern nostalgia—the idea that slavery was somehow "gentler" or more paternalistic than it was. By placing economic logic in the worker's mouth, the cartoon mocks both the "kind master" mythology and the notion that freed workers wouldn't want freedom if it meant losing financial scraps. It's a sharp critique of romantic revisionism about plantation life.
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