Thomas Nast's Influence On The North

Thomas Nast was a cartoonist in the 19th century, who primarily focused on issues with race and equality through the Civil War and Reconstruction era. He was given the name “Father of the American Cartoon.” During this period, the North and South were going fighting with one another due to opinions that both sides wanted the other to follow. Nast used his cartoons to influence the public opinions in the North which influenced public policy and showed his change of views of Reconstruction.
Thomas Nast attempted to influence the North’s public opinions by focusing largely on issues the concerned the North and their own views. The major attempts that were found to help influence was his cartoons on white supremacy in the South, slavery, the South not following the rules created after Civil War, and the government not protecting African Americans and …show more content…
Even after the war, the South still had white supremacy that affected the way they looked at African Americans after the war. In the cartoon “The Commandments in South Carolina,” it seems to be leading to the fact that the reconstruction in the South is not infective like it was believed to be. The African American is wearing jail clothing and standing over the Ten Commandments that is broken by the white man Franklin