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circa 1868
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
[U.S. Army razor]
U.S. Army razor, engraved "U. S. Grant," with White House provenance.
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1870
[Anti-15th Amendment]
"Hedgehog's Grand Combination of Powers of Darkness. . .The whole to conclude with Hedgehog's celebrated feat of swallowing a live negro!. . ." Reconstruction
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[1876]
"Bloody Colfax"
Distributed during the hotly contested Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1876, "The Colored Chiefs testify. . .The Hellish plot by which, through the slaughter of the negroes, the Kellogg usurpation secured Northern sympathy. . ."
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30 May 1831
Slavery contract
Contract between James Reed and "Providence, a negro man aged about twenty-eight years," binding Providence to Reed for ninety years. Reed planned on emigrating to Texas, then a provice of Mexico, where slavery was not legal.
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March 31, 1807
Madison, James, 1751-1836
to James Monroe
Opposes a British order made in Council on 7 January 1807 prohibiting neutral nations from trading with France, which Madison deems a retaliatory "violation of those rules of law and of justice which are binding on all nations." Discusses the...
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