Title

'Divorce À Vinculo', 1861. Artist: Unknown

Caption

'Divorce À Vinculo', 1861. Mrs Carolina, a representative of the slave-owning south of America, holding a cat o' nine tails and declaring her right to beat her own property, represented by a child slave pleading with the representative of the Northern States for protection. During the first half of 1861, a number of states in the slave-owning south of America left the Union following the election of Abraham Lincoln as President in 1860. Jefferson Davies was elected president of a new Confederacy but the Northern States refused to recognise the right to secession. The year 1861 was to see the beginning of the American Civil War. By definition a divorce à vinculo dissolves and totally severs the marriage tie. From Punch, or the London Charivari, January 19, 1861.

Date

1861

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Cartoon Collector

Reference

HRM19A89_088

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,9Mb (2,3Mb) / 12,3in x 17,0in / 3692 x 5105 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people black male child children man men protection country guy weapon weapons pistol color colour protected war location century protect lady concept whip B&W slavery pleading cartoon MONOCHROME warfare United States of America United States 19th century Confederacy black & white black and white B W weaponry American Civil War nineteenth century American America USA Heritage Image Partnership cat o' nine tails cat-o'-nine-tails Confederate States of America Northern States slave trade engraving Unknown Abraham Jefferson Abraham Lincoln Lincoln President of USA A Lincoln Davis Jefferson Davis Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln engraving