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35. Selected image: page 295. Source: "Another Fight in Washington. 'Personal Explanation' between Pocahontas and the Greek Slave." [New York] The John-Donkey 1.19 (May 6, 1848): 295. This satire magazine's three-pictured sketch involves a naked female wrestling match between the statues of Pocahontas and the Greek Slave, precipitated by the slave's vulgar gesture to the statue of John Smith. Pocahontas, who "showed more bottom than her slender antagonist," won!
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