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This is an allusion to the defeat of Fox's India Bill

A note below the title explains that the image can be held up to the light to enhance the effect: This print is first seen by day

25th November 1993

The Genu-ine Othello War atrocities behind her stands a servile'The Genu ine Othello', 1861. In this cartoon, the slave is depicted as the real Othello quoting an approximation of a couplet from Shakespeare's play. He has been given a speaking style which shows the contemporary attitude to blacks. On the left of the slave is President Lincoln and on the right is President Davis. Both men are armed with long swords as they prepare for a fight to the death, but 'Othello' instructs them to put up their swords. From