Lawlessness Gallery

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Parisians liberating prisoners after storming the Bastille during the French Revolution.
Hand-colored engraving of a 19th century French illustration

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1700s, 1789, 18th Century, Art, Assault, Bastille, Battle, Europe, France, Free, Freedom, French, French Revolution, Historic, History, Illustration, Lawless, Lawlessness, Liberate, Mob, Mob Violence, Overthrow, Prison, Prisoner, Protest, Revolt, Revolution, Riot, Uprising, Vintage, Violence

Blacks crushed by prejudice and violence after emancipation

Immigrant, a southerner, and a businessman combine to declare the US to be "a white man's government," 1868.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Thomas Nast cartoon

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1800s, 1860s, 1868, 19th Century, Abolition, American, Art, Ballot Box, Cartoon, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Emancipation, Former Slave, Free Black, Freed Slave, Freedman, Freedom, Government, Heritage, Historic, History, Illustration, Lawlessness, Mob, Mob Violence, Nast, North America, Political Cartoon, Prejudice, Reconstruction, Right To Vote, Riot, Rioter, South, Southern, Thomas Nast, Traditional, United States, Us A, Vintage, Violence, Voting

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Protestors tar and feather a tax collector during the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania 1790s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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1700s, 1790s, 18th Century, Alcohol, American, Art, Attack, Capture, Civil Disobedience, Civil Unrest, Demonstration, Demonstrator, Feather, Government, Historic, History, Illustration, Lawless, Lawlessness, Liquor, North America, Pennsylvania, Protest, Protestor, Rebellion, Revolt, Riot, Tar, Tar And Feather, Tax, Tax Collector, Tax Protest, Taxation, Town, United States, Uprising, Us A, Vintage, Violence, Whiskey, Whiskey Rebellion, Whiskey Revolt