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hip0214824 - 'Blackville', 1878. Part of a series: a post-emancipation debate on Darwinism. African Americans are here caricatured in a racist fashion as illiterate and ape-like. The artist has made the speaker resemble a gorilla, thus subverting Darwin's theory that humans are descended from apes. Illustration from "Adventures of America, 1857-1900", by John A Kouwenhoven, published by Harper & Brothers, (New York, London, 1938).
Credit: The Print Collector / HIP / TopFoto
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!['Blackville', 1878. Part of a series: a post-emancipation debate on Darwinism. African Americans are here caricatured in a racist fashion as illiterate and ape-like. The artist has made the speaker resemble a gorilla, thus subverting Darwin's theory that humans are descended from apes. Illustration from "Adventures of America, 1857-1900", by John A Kouwenhoven, published by Harper & Brothers, (New York, London, 1938). <br>Credit: The Print Collector / HIP / TopFoto](../images/prevs/hip0214824.jpg "'Blackville', 1878. Part of a series: a post-emancipation debate on Darwinism. African Americans are here caricatured in a racist fashion as illiterate and ape-like. The artist has made the speaker resemble a gorilla, thus subverting Darwin's theory that humans are descended from apes. Illustration from "Adventures of America, 1857-1900\", by John A Kouwenhoven, published by Harper & Brothers, (New York, London, 1938). <br>Credit: The Print Collector / HIP / TopFoto")