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Common sense [with seven other pamphlets from the 1790s]

Paine, Thomas. COMMON SENSE, bound with seven other tracts by Paine. Altogether eight works (in nine parts, one title consisting of two separately issued parts.) A fine collection bound in a single volume, contemp. sheep rubbed, crudely but neatly...

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Speeches and Papers Relating to the Rebellion and the Overthrow of Slavery

Published by Little, Brown & Co. in Boston. Stereotyped and printed by John Wilson and Son in Cambridge. Dedicated to the citizens of Groton, who supported Boutwell in his career as a public servant. Contains 35 chapters, each one a different speech...

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to John Sherman

Cadwalader, a Sacramento lawyer, discusses California politics with Sherman, a United State Senator from Ohio. Reports that the California presidential election will be held on the following day, with Lincoln holding a 134 count majority over...

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[Hutchinson's deposition regarding the theft of slaves] [fragment]

Location inferred from content. Hutchinson relates the theft of slaves by a group of armed men in Montgomery County, Texas, 1847. Hutchinson claims a group of men with Mr. Stoneum stole slaves from the Fowler plantation "by force of arms." First...

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Collection related to the Freedmen's Department of Memphis [Decimalized .01-.12]

Pertains to a project to aid freed slaves by the army. Most documents in this collection are related to T. A. Walker, who served as Superintendent of Freedmen, District of West Tennessee. Consists mostly of financial records, and contains...

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