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- GLC#
- GLC00267.033
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- December 7, 1824
- Author/Creator
- Monroe, James, 1758-1831
- Title
- Message from the President of the United States, to both houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress.
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 19 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 15.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The First Age of Reform
Describes the joint efforts of the U.S. and Britain to suppress the slave trade, which the Monroe administration proposed to define as piracy. Also discusses the rights of U.S. vessels during recent wars. Document no. 2. Printed by Gales & Seaton. Stitched.
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