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| Keywords: House That Jeff Built.png en The House that Jeff Built US Civil War editorial cartoon An extended and bitter indictment of Jefferson Davis and the Southern slave system The work consists of a series of twelve vignettes with accompanying verse following the scheme of the nursery rhyme The House That Jack Built The same nursery rhyme was adapted for some of the bank war satires during the Jacksonian era The vignettes are as follows 1 the House showing the door to a slave pen; 2 bales of cotton By rebels call'd king; 3 slaves at work picking cotton field-chattels that made cotton king; 4 slave families despondently awaiting auction; 5 slave auctioneer the thing by some call'd a man; 6 slave shackles; 7 slave merchants; 8 a slave breeder negotiating in an interior with a slave merchant; on the wall appear portraits of Jefferson Davis and Gen P G T Beauregard; 9 a cat-o-nine-tails; 10 a slave driver flogging a bound female slave; 11 Jefferson Davis the arch-rebel Jeff whose infamous course / Has bro't rest to the plow and made active the hearse 12 symbols of slavery an auctioneer's gavel whip auctionnotices and shackles lying torn and broken with a notice of Jeff Davis's execution because Jeffs infamous house is doom'd to come down Text <p> 1 This is the house that Jeff built <br> 2 This is the cotton by rebels called king Tho call d by Loyalists no such thing that lay in the house that Jeff built <br> 3 These are the field chattels that made cotton king tho call d by Loyalists no such thing that lay in the house that Jeff built <br> 4 These are the chattels babes mothers and men to be sold by the head in the slave pen; A part of the house that Jeff built <br> 5 This is the thing by some call d a man Whose trade is to sell all the chattels he can From yearlings to adults of life s longest span; In and out of the house that Jeff built <br> 6 These are the shackles for those who suppose their limbs are their own from fingers to toes; And are prone to believe say all that you can that they shouldn t be sold by that thing call d a man; Whose trade is to sell all the chattels he can from yearlings to adults of life s longest span in and out of the house that Jeff built <br> 7 These buy the slaves both male and female and sell their own souls to a boss with a tail who owns the small soul of that thing call d a man whose trade is to sell all the chattels he can from yearlings to adults of life s longest span in and out of the house that Jeff built <br> 8 Here the slave breeder parts with his own flesh to a trader down south in the heart of secesh thus trader and breeder secure without fail the lasting attachment of him with a tail who owns the small soul of that thing call d a man whose trade is to sell all the chattels he can from yearlings to adult s of life s longest span in and out of the house that Jeff built <BR> 9 This is the scourge by some call d the cat Stout in the handle and nine tails to that t is joyous to think that the time s drawing near when the cat will no longer cause chattels to fear nor the going going gone of that thing call d a man whose trade is to sell all the chattels he can from yearlings to adults of life s longest span in and out of the house that Jeff built <br> 10 Here the slave driver in transport applies nine tails to his victim nor heeds her shrill cries Alas that a driver with nine tails his own should be slave to a driver who owns only one albeit he owns that thing call d a man whose trade is to sell all the chattels he can from yearlings to adults of life s longest span in and out of the house that Jeff built <BR> 11 Here s the arch rebel Jeff whose infamous course has bro t rest to the plow and made active the hearse and invoked on his head every patriots curse spread ruin and famine to stock the slave pen and furnish employment to that thing among men whose trade is to sell all the chattels he can from yearlings to adults of life s longest span in and out of the house that Jeff built <br> 12 But Jeff s infamous house is doom d to come down so says Uncle Sam and so said John Brown With slave pen and auction shackles driver and cat together with buyer and seller and breeder and that most loathsome of bipeds by some call d a man whose trade is to sell all the chattels he can from yearlings to adults of life s longest span in and out of the house that Jeff built <p> Notes <p> The boss with a tail is a reference to the Devil 1863-07 Cartoon by David Claypool Johnston Boston Via copy at http //www americanantiquarian org/Inventories/Johnston/box6inventory htm cropped contrast adjusted and converted from jpg to png before upload David Claypool Johnston Boston other versions PD-US PD-old-100 The House That Jeff Built | ||||
