AQS254827 Political cartoon depicting African-Americans as politicians (litho) by American School, (19th century); American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; (add.info.: \'Colored Rule in the Reconstructed State\'; Southern Democrats and other whites helped to delegitimate black rule in the South, and black political rights in general, by depicting legislators as incapable of rule and as even less than human, as this image of black Republican legislators reflects;); 穢 Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society ; American, out of copyright.