1808 British political cartoon ridiculing
1808 British political cartoon ridiculing the Embargo Act of 1807. President Thomas Jefferson reassures his petitioners, ruined businessmen, that the embargo on warring Europeans may show good results in 15 to 20 years. Meanwhile, he recommends unemployed seamen engage in farming, enabling good relations with France and Napoleon, who crouched behind the President
Picture No
13125033
Media ID
45373075
Size
3000px x 2055px
(1.4MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Courtesy Everett Collection
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