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Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1 Record:

Letter addressed to Charles Kellogg, Topeka

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P73
Overview

The letter concerns personal real estate transactions and troubles along the Missouri-Kansas border between free state and pro-slavery partisans. Letter is written on back page of "Appeal of Kansas to the voters of the Free States" dated Topeka, July 4, 1856. This printed appeal concerns the contested election of 1856 and an appeal for Kansas to join the Union as a free state.

Dates: August 6, 1856