Keeping Account (1885)

Title: Keeping Account (1885)
Description: This political cartoon, published in the wake of the Rock Springs Massacre that targeted Chinese laborers, depicted the practice of "indemnity," or compensation between nations in the wake of racial violence. The cartoon depicted Uncle Sam and the Emperor of China debating how and whether China would be compensated for the racial violence in Wyoming Territory.
Date: 1885-09-16
Author: Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937
Legal Concept: Racialized Violence; Property; Immigration
Subject: Asian Americans; Immigrants
Temporal Coverage: Gilded Age; Jim Crow Era; Territorial Expansion
Spatial Coverage: Wyoming; New York; West; Northeast
Document Type: Political Cartoon
Document Category: Primary Source
Digital Repository: Library of Congress
URL: https://www.loc.gov/item/2011660543/
Contributor: Katie Wu

Item sets: Racial Violence at Rock Springs, Property Compensation, and "Indemnity" during Chinese Exclusion

Title: Keeping Account (1885)
Description: This political cartoon, published in the wake of the Rock Springs Massacre that targeted Chinese laborers, depicted the practice of "indemnity," or compensation between nations in the wake of racial violence. The cartoon depicted Uncle Sam and the Emperor of China debating how and whether China would be compensated for the racial violence in Wyoming Territory.
Date: 1885-09-16
Author: Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937
Legal Concept: Racialized Violence; Property; Immigration
Subject: Asian Americans; Immigrants
Temporal Coverage: Gilded Age; Jim Crow Era; Territorial Expansion
Spatial Coverage: Wyoming; New York; West; Northeast
Document Type: Political Cartoon
Document Category: Primary Source
Digital Repository: Library of Congress
URL: https://www.loc.gov/item/2011660543/
Contributor: Katie Wu

Item sets: Racial Violence at Rock Springs, Property Compensation, and "Indemnity" during Chinese Exclusion

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