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Created during the time of heightened anti-Chinese sentiment, the comic depicts Uncle Sam kicking a Chinese immigrant off a dock.

The illustration shows James Garfield and Winfield S. Hancock nailing a Chinese man between two "Anti-Chinese" boards labeled "Republican Plank" and "Democratic Plank".

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 ,…

Uncle Sam. "We, as a nation, are not responsible; it is the State; and as the murders were all committed by unauthorized foreigners, you should go to their native lands for indemnity."