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What do Harper's Weekly cartoonist Thomas Nast's 1865 cartoon And Not This Man? and his 1874 cartoon Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State reveal about his attitudes toward Reconstruction during the span of its existence?
 
  A) Nast's images changed from portraying blacks as racist caricatures to noble individuals
  during the Reconstruction era.
  B) Nast's initial racist attitudes toward blacks were altered as he saw them become agents of
  their own liberty during Reconstruction.
  C) Nast's impression of this time period transformed from a progressive view to a reactionary
  one as he grew disillusioned with Reconstruction's failures.
  D) Nast was a strong supporter of black suffrage and believed that African Americans in the
  South had earned the right to govern themselves after the end of Reconstruction.

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