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The Spider 1897 "Peanut Club"
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Title
The Spider 1897 "Peanut Club"
Subject
Description
This 1897 drawing in the Spider yearbook depicts a racist caricature of a black person next to the "Peanut Club" whose motto is "eat at pleasure and drink by measure." It is unclear why a black person is depicted next to what appears to be an food club of some kind.
Source
Virginia Baptist Historical Society, The Spider (1897): 80. Available online via the the UR Scholarship Repository.
Publisher
The Spider, University of Richmond
Date
1897
Language
English
Type
Identifier
Spider80-1897.png
Coverage
Richmond (Va).
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Metadata Creator
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Citation
“The Spider 1897 "Peanut Club",” University of Richmond Race & Racism Project, accessed December 5, 2023, https://memory.richmond.edu/items/show/2956.