Thomas Nast, The Massacre at New Orleans, 1867. The political cartoon criticizes President Andrew Johnson, dressed as a king, for allowing the New Orleans Massacre of 1866 to unfold, wherein white rioters attacked a peaceful demonstration of Black Freedmen. Nearly 50 people were killed and almost 200 injured.
Featured on PDR in the essay The Emancipatory Visions of a Sex Magician: Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Occult Politics
Erotic magic, Black emancipation, gender fluidity, interplanetary spirit realms — these were but a few of the topics that preoccupied Paschal Beverly Randolph (b. 1825), an occult thinker who believed that his multiracial identity afforded him “peculiar mental power and marvelous versatility”. Lara Langer Cohen considers the neglected politics of Randolph’s esoteric writings alongside the repeated frustration of his activism: how dreams of other worlds, above and below our own, reflect the unfulfilled promises of Emancipation.
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The Massacre at New Orleans
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