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[Carte de visite of Owen Lovejoy]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09410 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph signed Date: 1857-1864 ca. Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 11 cm, Width: 6.1 cm Order a Copy

Signed carte-de-visite of Radical Republican congressman Owen Lovejoy from Illinois. Lovejoy's Princeton, Ill. homestead was an important Underground Railroad station.

Lovejoy, Owen, 1811-1864
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Underground Railroad
Republican Party
Abolition
Reform Movement
Politics
African American History
Slavery
Runaway Slave
Age of Jackson

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