The hostility Abraham Lincoln faced from a majority of Americans in 1860 – he won only 39.6% of the vote that year, by far the smallest victor’s total in presidential history – took many forms. Reports of his effigy being burnt at anti-Lincoln rallies span the map from Georgia to Oregon. Here is a very rare survival from that period: an effigy doll ready for pricking or burning, with a black-cloth face under the paper Lincoln mask, to signal that he was a member of the so-called ‘black Republicans’ who wanted to free the slaves. The bearded mask indicates an 1864 re-run of the same hatreds of 1860, but by that point, his emancipationist policy had begun to move the hearts of enough Northerners that his victory was clear.