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THE DIS-UNITED STATES
THE MAP OF THE INTERIOR, ATLANTIC, PACIFIC AND
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CONFEDERATE STATES!
The map title reads: "Our Country as Traitors & Tyrants Would Have It; or Map of the Disunited States.”
It was published in New York by H.H. Lloyd & Co. In blue, it shows a maximalist version of the Confederate States of America (CSA)
It was published in New York by H.H. Lloyd & Co. In blue, it shows a maximalist version of the Confederate States of America (CSA)
IT’S 1864, AND THE CIVIL WAR IS RAGING. But southern secession isn’t the only danger threatening the Union. The United States has plenty of other enemies, foreign and domestic! If they got their way, this is what the formerly united states would look like—not two, but FOUR nations jostling for space and supremacy on the land mass between the Pacific and Atlantic!
The core of the CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA or CSA was composed of seven Southern, slave-holding states who seceded following the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860: Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and South Carolina. After the Civil War began in April 1861, they were joined by four more slave states, this time from the Upper South: Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. The CSA later tried but failed to expand its authority over Missouri and Kentucky, which never formally declared their secession.
The map shows all these states but as ONE as part of the eventual CSA, with Confederate Missouri only going up to the Missouri River, which transects the state. The Confederacy ON THIS MAP also gets New Mexico, the Indian Territory (now known as Oklahoma), West Virginia (which had seceded from Virginia to remain in the Union), Maryland, and Delaware--and presumably also Washington, D.C., now stuck deep in blue (CSA) territory.
The rest of the United States is divided into three.
1. The Atlantic States (in orange) are the smallest of the four entities, and it consists of the six New England states (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island), plus New York State, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
The border between Pennsylvania and Ohio is now an international border, with the so-called:
2. Interior States (in yellow). It emerges on the southern shore of Lake Erie and runs south to an international tripoint (CSA, Atlantic States, and Interior States) at Wheeling (a.k.a. Fort Henry)—lopping off the northern tip of West Virginia’s northern panhandle and granting it to the Interiors.
The Interior States comprise the area (formerly known as the Northwest Territory), now covered by the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin (and part of Minnesota); and also areas up to the Rocky Mountains covered by (the rest of) Minnesota, the Dakota Territory (not yet divided into the states of North and South Dakota), Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, and those parts of Idaho and Colorado Territories to the east of the Rockies. (The map shows Idaho Territory consisting of the current states of Idaho and Wyoming; (this does not seem to have any basis in historical fact). Idaho Territory comprised the current states of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming up to May 26, 1864, when Montana Territory [coterminous (having the same boundaries) with the later state of Montana] was organized separately, and the part that roughly corresponds to the present state of Wyoming was transferred to 'Dakota Territory'.) SEE MAP ABOVE
The remaining U.S. states and territories are part of the
3. Pacific States (in red), i.e., California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah (entirely), and Idaho and Colorado (partly).
Which are the forces that threaten the Union? The map gives no explanation, but shows THREE figures (SEE BELOW) on the map edges, and each can be considered a danger to the United States.
The FIRST is to the east, the snake-protected bust of John C. Calhoun, Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. The South Carolinian was a strong defender of slavery and states’ rights, and was seen as one of the precursors of Southern secession. Calhoun represents the (domestic) “Traitors” mentioned in the map’s title.
The core of the CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA or CSA was composed of seven Southern, slave-holding states who seceded following the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860: Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and South Carolina. After the Civil War began in April 1861, they were joined by four more slave states, this time from the Upper South: Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. The CSA later tried but failed to expand its authority over Missouri and Kentucky, which never formally declared their secession.
The map shows all these states but as ONE as part of the eventual CSA, with Confederate Missouri only going up to the Missouri River, which transects the state. The Confederacy ON THIS MAP also gets New Mexico, the Indian Territory (now known as Oklahoma), West Virginia (which had seceded from Virginia to remain in the Union), Maryland, and Delaware--and presumably also Washington, D.C., now stuck deep in blue (CSA) territory.
The rest of the United States is divided into three.
1. The Atlantic States (in orange) are the smallest of the four entities, and it consists of the six New England states (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island), plus New York State, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
The border between Pennsylvania and Ohio is now an international border, with the so-called:
2. Interior States (in yellow). It emerges on the southern shore of Lake Erie and runs south to an international tripoint (CSA, Atlantic States, and Interior States) at Wheeling (a.k.a. Fort Henry)—lopping off the northern tip of West Virginia’s northern panhandle and granting it to the Interiors.
The Interior States comprise the area (formerly known as the Northwest Territory), now covered by the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin (and part of Minnesota); and also areas up to the Rocky Mountains covered by (the rest of) Minnesota, the Dakota Territory (not yet divided into the states of North and South Dakota), Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, and those parts of Idaho and Colorado Territories to the east of the Rockies. (The map shows Idaho Territory consisting of the current states of Idaho and Wyoming; (this does not seem to have any basis in historical fact). Idaho Territory comprised the current states of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming up to May 26, 1864, when Montana Territory [coterminous (having the same boundaries) with the later state of Montana] was organized separately, and the part that roughly corresponds to the present state of Wyoming was transferred to 'Dakota Territory'.) SEE MAP ABOVE
The remaining U.S. states and territories are part of the
3. Pacific States (in red), i.e., California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah (entirely), and Idaho and Colorado (partly).
Which are the forces that threaten the Union? The map gives no explanation, but shows THREE figures (SEE BELOW) on the map edges, and each can be considered a danger to the United States.
The FIRST is to the east, the snake-protected bust of John C. Calhoun, Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. The South Carolinian was a strong defender of slavery and states’ rights, and was seen as one of the precursors of Southern secession. Calhoun represents the (domestic) “Traitors” mentioned in the map’s title.
SECONDLY, a 'sinister Canadian lion', hungrily gazing towards the Great Lake states and crowned to facilitate identification, which represents the British Empire. The Brits remained neutral during the Civil War, but certain elements within both the Confederacy and Great Britain itself pleaded for British military intervention to turn the tide in favor of the South. Could this (foreign) “Tyrant” be eyeing the Interior States as a new Dominion for the British crown? Hmm.
And finally, the THIRD depiction shows us that in Mexico meanwhile, French emperor Napoleon III is crowning Maximilian of Habsburg-Lorraine emperor of Mexico. The short-lived Second Mexican Empire was France’s failed attempt to establish a subsidiary monarchy in Mexico. The United States refused to recognize the Empire, continuing its support for the Mexican republic under Benito Juarez. Perhaps if the Empire had survived, it would have tried to foster a Mexico-friendly rebellion in the Pacific states?
“To our knowledge, no other map of the Civil War era depicted such an extreme vision of a secession-torn United States,” writes Boston Rare Maps, which sold a copy of this extraordinary map
for an undisclosed sum.
But what a way to fire up the tempers and egos of the northern
US loyalists and perhaps this map served a greater purpose of banding together in unity for the fight to save the union!
for an undisclosed sum.
But what a way to fire up the tempers and egos of the northern
US loyalists and perhaps this map served a greater purpose of banding together in unity for the fight to save the union!
CHANGING THE VIEW
‘His Name Was Bélizaire’: Rare Portrait of Enslaved Child ...Arrives at the Met
By Alexandra Eaton
Aug. 14, 2023
For many years, a 19th century painting of three white children in a Louisiana landscape held a secret. Beneath a layer of overpaint meant to look like the sky: the figure of an enslaved youth peers out at us.
Covered up for reasons that remain unspecified, the image of the young man of African descent was erased from the work around the turn of the last century, and languished for decades in dusty attics and a museum basement.
But a 2005 restoration revealed him and now the painting has a new, very prominent home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“I’ve been wanting to add such a work to the Met’s collection for the past 10 years,” said Betsy Kornhauser, the curator for American paintings and sculpture who handled the acquisition, “and this is the extraordinary work that has appeared.”
Kornhauser said the museum acquired the work, known as “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” this year, as part of its larger effort to reframe how it tells the story of American art. The painting, attributed to Jacques Amans, a French portraitist of Louisiana’s elite, will hang in the American Wing this fall and again next year during the wing’s centennial celebration.
One reason “Bélizaire and the Frey Children” has drawn attention is the naturalistic depiction of Bélizaire, the young man of African descent who occupies the highest position in the painting, leaning against a tree just behind the Frey children. Although he remains separated from the white children, Amans painted him in a powerful stance, with blushing cheeks, and a kind of 'interiority' (inner character or nature) that is unusual for the time.
Since the 'Black Lives Matter' movement, the Met and other museums have responded to calls to reckon with the presentation of Black figures. When the European Galleries reopened in 2020, the museum included wall texts to highlight the presence of African people in Europe and to call attention to issues of racism, previously unmentioned. In the American Wing, which had presented “a romanticized history of American art,” Kornhauser said, a presidential portrait was recast with the consciousness of the present: John Trumbull’s 1780 portrait of George Washington and his enslaved servant, William Lee identified only the former president until 2020, when Lee’s name was then added to the title. However, unlike Bélizaire, Lee is depicted at the margins, lacking in any emotion or humanity.
Aug. 14, 2023
For many years, a 19th century painting of three white children in a Louisiana landscape held a secret. Beneath a layer of overpaint meant to look like the sky: the figure of an enslaved youth peers out at us.
Covered up for reasons that remain unspecified, the image of the young man of African descent was erased from the work around the turn of the last century, and languished for decades in dusty attics and a museum basement.
But a 2005 restoration revealed him and now the painting has a new, very prominent home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“I’ve been wanting to add such a work to the Met’s collection for the past 10 years,” said Betsy Kornhauser, the curator for American paintings and sculpture who handled the acquisition, “and this is the extraordinary work that has appeared.”
Kornhauser said the museum acquired the work, known as “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” this year, as part of its larger effort to reframe how it tells the story of American art. The painting, attributed to Jacques Amans, a French portraitist of Louisiana’s elite, will hang in the American Wing this fall and again next year during the wing’s centennial celebration.
One reason “Bélizaire and the Frey Children” has drawn attention is the naturalistic depiction of Bélizaire, the young man of African descent who occupies the highest position in the painting, leaning against a tree just behind the Frey children. Although he remains separated from the white children, Amans painted him in a powerful stance, with blushing cheeks, and a kind of 'interiority' (inner character or nature) that is unusual for the time.
Since the 'Black Lives Matter' movement, the Met and other museums have responded to calls to reckon with the presentation of Black figures. When the European Galleries reopened in 2020, the museum included wall texts to highlight the presence of African people in Europe and to call attention to issues of racism, previously unmentioned. In the American Wing, which had presented “a romanticized history of American art,” Kornhauser said, a presidential portrait was recast with the consciousness of the present: John Trumbull’s 1780 portrait of George Washington and his enslaved servant, William Lee identified only the former president until 2020, when Lee’s name was then added to the title. However, unlike Bélizaire, Lee is depicted at the margins, lacking in any emotion or humanity.
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