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   By crashryan
What an interesting--and appalling--document of a past age. Philadelphia's Great Central Fair was one of a number of such Fairs mounted for the United States Sanitary Commission. About the USSC Wikipedia says: "The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) during the American Civil War. It operated across the North, raised an estimated $25 million in Civil War era revenue (assuming 1865 dollars, $417.55 million in 2020) and in-kind contributions to support the cause, and enlisted thousands of volunteers. The president was Henry Whitney Bellows, and Frederick Law Olmsted acted as executive secretary. It was modeled on the British Sanitary Commission, set up during the Crimean War (1853-1856), and from the British parliamentary report published after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ("Sepoy Rebellion"). Talk about collectors' items: the 1864 Philadelphia Fair was visited by Abraham Lincoln and his family. Lincoln donated 48 autographed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation which were sold for $10 apiece. I wonder how well the booklets were received. Anyone who imagines Civil War racism was limited to the Confederacy needs to read these limericks. Slave jokes and racial insults abound. We also find a number of nonpartisan misogynistic rhymes about jolly subjects like wife murder. Fun for the whole family.
   By The Australian Panther
Limericks illustrated by caricature were fairly common at the time. It's always a mistake to judge the past by the present. Next step is to complete censor the past and then we are cut off form it, learn nothing and live in complete fantasy land. What we see here is Irony. [Irony is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words....... Verbal irony involves what one does not mean. For example, when in response to a foolish idea, we say, “What a great idea!” This is verbal irony.] Unfortunately Irony is now banned as not PC, which is now absolute. But Irony is clearly what the creator intended, some of it very pointed and bitter. Some of these, for example 'The young lady from Georgia' and 'the young lady from Hatyi' undoubtedly referred to topical situations that the contemporary reader would know of and which are unknown to us now, so we lack the context. That was, at the time, the only way you could critique behavior and get away with it' Hell, maybe it still is. You can still find it occasionally in some memes and tweets. I guess Crash, we are going to have to agree to disagree. Here's to freedom of speech. Cheers! And Lyons, Thank you and keep on keeping on.
   By Andrew999
A document of interest yet appalling With limericks that may need mothballing We must not censor the past, but should learn from it fast, For many of note 'twas a calling
  
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