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title: Punch, 'The Jamaica Question' (Tenniel), 23 December 1865
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/punch-jamaica-question-1865/
description: Full-page Punch cartoon from the Eyre controversy after the Morant Bay rising.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Full-page period caricature of a Black Jamaican man, a white planter and a clergyman, made in the context of the 1865 Morant Bay killings. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# Punch, 'The Jamaica Question' (Tenniel), 23 December 1865

Full-page Punch cartoon from the Eyre controversy after the Morant Bay rising. Between a bearded white planter and a Black Jamaican man walks a long-faced clergyman; the caption has the planter ask 'Am not I a man and brother, too, Mr. Stiggins?'. Tells: the Dickens name 'Stiggins' used as a label for the critic, and the abolitionist slogan 'Man and Brother' turned to the planter's use.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.-DECEMBER 23, 1865.

THE JAMAICA QUESTION.

WHITE PLANTER. "AM NOT I A MAN AND BROTHER, TOO, MR. STIGGINS?"
```

Full text of the page: masthead, title and caption. The Black Jamaican figure is shown as drawn, in a caricatured style typical of the period.

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