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Letter from Edwin Ferris to Joseph Lyman

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Ferris, Edwin

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Inquiry into purchasing share of land includes questions about locale, taxes, cost, and questions whether freemen are really entitled to the same rights to own land as slaveholders.
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  1. Slaver
  2. Slavery
  3. United States

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