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Read and Ponder the Fugitive Slave Law!, 1850



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The Compromise of 1850, 1850, by David Atkinson

The Compromise of 1850, 1850, by James Shields

The Fugitive Slave Law, 1850

Anti-Fugitive Slave Law Meeting, 1851

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Slave Power, 1856, by Salmon P. Chase

Revival of the Slavery Issue, 1856, by Gideon Welles

Kansas Meeting, 1856, by Gerrit Smith

Bleeding Kansas, 1855, by John Brown

Bleeding Sumner, 1856, by Charles Sumner

The Dred Scott Decision, 1857, by Roger Taney

The Gathering Storm, 1857, by Hinton Rowan Helper

House Divided, 1858, by Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln and Slavery, 1857-1858, by Abraham Lincoln

An Assessment of James Buchanan, 1858, by Andrew Johnson

Astounding Disclosures!, 1858, by Robert Goodenow

Speech Delivered in Springfield, 1858, by Abraham Lincoln

Harpers Ferry, 1887, by Annie Brown Adams

Address of John Brown to the Virginia Court..., Undated but probably December 1859, by John Brown

John Brown's Son Reflects, 1860, by Aaron D. Stevens

Howling Dervishes, 1859

William Windom to Edward R. Parry et al., 1859, by William Windom

Cotton Is King and Pro-Slavery Arguments, 1860, by E.N. Elliott

Stephen A. Douglas to N. Prescott, 1860, by Stephen A. Douglas

Anti-Union Sentiment, 1860

Frederick Douglass's Views on Liberty, 1860, by Frederick Douglass

Georgia Purchases Arms, 1860, by Paul Jones Semmes

The Secession Crisis, 1860

South Carolina Secession, 1860, by William P. Gibson

The Secession Crisis, 1861, by Robert Campbell

The Secession Crisis, 1861, by Jefferson Davis

Fort Sumter, 1861, by Robert A. Anderson

Fort Sumter, 1861, by Jefferson Davis
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