. English: 'The House that Jeff Built'. US Civil War editorial cartoon. An extended and bitter indictment of Jefferson Davis and the Southern slave system. The work consists of a series of twelve vignettes with accompanying verse, following the scheme of the nursery rhyme 'The House That Jack Built.' The same nursery rhyme was adapted for some of the bank war satires during the Jacksonian era. The vignettes are as follows: 1. the 'House,' showing the door to a slave pen; 2. bales of cotton, 'By rebels call'd king;' 3. slaves at work picking cotton, 'field-chattels that made cotton king;' 4. sl

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. English: 'The House that Jeff Built'. US Civil War editorial cartoon. An extended and bitter indictment of Jefferson Davis and the Southern slave system. The work consists of a series of twelve vignettes with accompanying verse, following the scheme of the nursery rhyme 'The House That Jack Built.' The same nursery rhyme was adapted for some of the bank war satires during the Jacksonian era. The vignettes are as follows: 1. the 'House, ' showing the door to a slave pen; 2. bales of cotton, 'By rebels call'd king;' 3. slaves at work picking cotton, 'field-chattels that made cotton king;' 4. slave families despondently awaiting auction; 5. slave auctioneer, 'the thing by some call'd a man;' 6. slave shackles; 7. slave merchants; 8. a slave breeder negotiating in an interior with a slave merchant; on the wall appear portraits of Jefferson Davis and Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard; 9. a cat-o-nine-tails; 10. a slave driver flogging a bound female slave; 11. Jefferson Davis, 'the arch-rebel Jeff whose infamous course / Has bro't rest to the plow, and made active the hearse.' 12. symbols of slavery, an auctioneer's gavel, whip, auctionnotices, and shackles lying torn and broken with a notice of Jeff Davis's execution because ' . . Jeffs infamous house is doom'd to come down.' Text: 1.This is the house that Jeff built. 2.This is the cotton, by rebels, called king (Tho’ call’d by Loyalists no such thing) that lay in the house that Jeff built. 3.These are the field chattels that made cotton king, (tho’ call’d by Loyalists no such thing), that lay in the house that Jeff built. 4.These are the chattels babes, mothers, and men, to be sold by the head, in the slave pen;— A part of the house that Jeff built. 5.This is the thing, by some call’d a man, Whose trade is to sell all the chattels he can, From yearlings to adults of life’s longest span; In and out of the house that Jeff built. 6.These are the shackles, for those who suppose their limbs are their own from fingers to