"This cartoon, published in March of 1899 in Life magazine, shows Uncle Sam, John Bull and Kaiser Wilhelm overweight figures carried on the backs of non-white people, bent over under their weight. Mainly 'inspired' by Rudyard Kipling's poem, ""The White Man's Burden"" published in 1899, an appeal to the United States to assume the 'burden' of 'developing' the Philippines, recently won in the Spanish-American War.  
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