Poster 1: Saving Our Country The poster displays Abraham Lincoln on the left and Robert E. Lee on the right, representing the North and the South. On the top middle you will see the words “We The People” which we all know it is from the Declaration of Independence, in the middle between Lincoln and Lee you will see a slave bearing the scars obtained from his brutal bondage as a slave. The images of the poster are intentionally laid out in such a way to tell this story: President Lincoln is looking to the South, at Robert E. Lee, thru the words “We the People” symbolizing a solidified union. Lincoln’s thought is to defend the most important foundation of our country from the Declaration of Independence, which follow: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The Slave has his back towards the south bearing the scars of his bondage, looking to the north at for justice as if he knew that he would be heard and one …show more content…
Two of this letters played a huge roll for the Civil War and the fight to abolish slavery. The first two were written in 1844, one was from the Pennsylvanian’s rejecting slavery written to “The First Session of the 28th Congress. The interesting fact of the second letter is that it was a petition from women to end slavery, at the time women were not allowed to vote; however, they gathered in meetings and discussed current social and political issues, they would then write letters and used petitions to influence congress. The third letter is in the center and it is the Draft Resolution to End Slavery from 31 January 1865, it later became the 13th Amendment that same year. The significance is that the same year on April 15, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was shot at the Ford Theater in
The Slave has his back towards the south bearing the scars of his bondage, looking to the north at for justice as if he knew that he would be heard and one …show more content…
Two of this letters played a huge roll for the Civil War and the fight to abolish slavery. The first two were written in 1844, one was from the Pennsylvanian’s rejecting slavery written to “The First Session of the 28th Congress. The interesting fact of the second letter is that it was a petition from women to end slavery, at the time women were not allowed to vote; however, they gathered in meetings and discussed current social and political issues, they would then write letters and used petitions to influence congress. The third letter is in the center and it is the Draft Resolution to End Slavery from 31 January 1865, it later became the 13th Amendment that same year. The significance is that the same year on April 15, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was shot at the Ford Theater in