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This broadside points out that Presidential candidate Henry Clay voted against a bill in 1819 proposing that all slaves born in Arkansas would become free on arriving at the age of twenty-five. [1844?]
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  1. Broadsides
  2. Campaign Literature, 1844
  3. Clay, Henry 1777 1852
  4. Slaver
  5. Slavery

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