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Map of the United States and territories: showing the possessions and aggressions of the slave power.

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Bloss, William C

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Map shows slave holding [dark shaded], non-slave holding [unshaded], and disputed territorries [grayed] parts of the United States during the decade before Civil War. The "Missouri Compromise" is indicated with a parallel line extending from the northern Arkansas border to California. No scale indicated. Political representation of slave holding, non-slave holding, and territories is also indicated. This broadside was printed and distributed in support of 1856 Republican Party presidential candidate John C. Fremont and political commentary appears in the lower third of the sheet.1 map : 50 x 60 cm., on sheet 107 x 71 cm.
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  1. Government
  2. Government And Law Politics
  3. Government And Law Politics Commentaries
  4. History
  5. John C. Fremont
  6. Landscape And Nature Geography And Maps
  7. Maps
  8. Missouri Compromise
  9. Places United States
  10. Slaver
  11. Social Life And Customs Slavery
  12. United States

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