Description Published November 8, 1856 in Punch, years before the outbreak of Civil War in the United States, this cartoon demonstrates the English understanding of 'The Negro Question' and its repercussions for the American states. The image shows a black slave at the middle of the conflict between North and South, standing between the Southern farmer and the Yankee gentleman as he tears a map of America in a symbolic gesture that literally rips the nation's fabric in two. 8 x 7 inches