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Macbeth and the End of Slavery in the United States
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Macbeth and the End of Slavery in the United States

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David McKenzie

What can Shakespeare say about the original sin of the United States, slavery? As two artists in the Civil War era thought, a lot. Two cartoons in the Folger’s collections, drawn around a decade apart, allude to Shakespeare’s Macbeth to…