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Yellow Terror is a term used interchangeably with "Yellow Peril," which refers to Western fears that Asian people seek to plague the West and erode democracy and Christianity.

The illustration features Uncle Sam being swallowed by an Irish man and a Chinese man, thus alluding to Yellow Peril and general xenophobia.

"Plain Language from Truthful James" is a narrative poem by American writer Bret Harte. It was originally published in September 1870 in the Overland Monthly.

In the 1870s, anti-Chinese violence erupted; white workers blamed Chinese laborers, whom employers paid considerably less. In the 1870s and 1880s, 153 anti-Chinese riots erupted throughout the American West.

The Chinese massacre of 1871 ,…