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The engraving "What de debil you hurrah for GeneralJacksonfor?"was originally part of a racist Life in Philadelphia series satirizing upwardly mobile African Americans that was drawn by Philadelphia native Edward Williams Clay. It was originally…

Was the creator of this Jackson portrait an African American free man of color or not? What we do know: this lithograph was created by Jules Lion. Born in Paris, in the mid-1830s Jules Lion immigrated to New Orleans, where the 1837 city directory…