The Fruits of Amalgamation In this lithograph from 1839, Edward W. Clay of Philadelphia attacked abolitionists by imagining the miscegenation (also known as “amalgamation”) that would come from emancipation. He drew a beautiful white woman, her two black children, and her dark-skinned, ridiculously overdressed husband, resting his feet in his wife’s lap.
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA/Bridgeman Images.