In anticipation of the American bicentennial, Robert Colescott created this satire of Emmanuel Leutze’s monumental 1851 paintings Washington Crossing the Delaware (one of which is permanently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City). In Colescott’s version, Leutze’s heroic George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, is replaced with Black history’s own hero of the same name: the scientist and educator best known for his innovations in crop rotation. Alongside him, Colescott incorporates stereotypical caricatures of Black men and women that circulated in Jim Crow–era popular culture, including advertisements, cinema, and minstrel performances.