“Colonial Slavery”, 1830: African American History Month & Pre-YK Talkies
WARNING: The below comic strip contains racist imagery and slurs.
Above, Colonial Slavery, by artist William Heath, from issue #8, August, 1830, of the British cartoon monthly, The Looking Glass. This comic strip parodies the hypocrisy of logic used by the British government, to exonerate the actions of British slave owners in their colony of Jamaica. Britain would outlaw slavery three years later, in 1833 (though, transferring the slaves into indentured servitude, to their former owners — not much better).
In addition to being for African American History Month, this strip is also one of numerous examples of Pre-YK Talkies — sequential comic strips whose stories are told via the combination of pictures and word balloons, years before the 1896 R.F.O. Yellow Kid strip that many long credited as having “invented” the above style of comics story-telling).
Click on the above comic strip to view it in detail, and read the word balloons & captions.
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— Doug
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