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🇺🇸 **Black Friday and Gilded Age Robber Barons: Examining the 1869 Gold Crisis through Political Cartoons**
"_Black Friday involved two robber barons, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, who worked with Abel Corbin, a brother-in-law of President Ulysses S. Grant, to drive up the price of gold. Their scheme resulted in a dramatic price crash on September 24, 1869, which shuttered many brokerage firms and led to the value of gold and stocks falling by $100 million._"
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2025/08/black-friday-political-cartoons/.
