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“Slavery in Oregon,” Washington (DC) National Era, August 27, 1857

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, February 11, 2009.

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Slavery in Oregon

Source citation

“Slavery in Oregon,” Washington (DC) National Era, August 27, 1857, p. 140: 3.

Source note

Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

Augustus Caesar Dodge (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference

"Dodge, Augustus Caesar," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000394.

DODGE, Augustus Caesar, (son of Henry Dodge, nephew of Lewis Fields Linn), a Delegate and a Senator from Iowa; born in Ste.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present

The Delegate and the Duel: The Early Political Career of George Wallace Jones

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John Jones Pettus, Mississippi Fire-Eater: His Life and Times, 1813-1867

Read more about John Jones Pettus, Mississippi Fire-Eater: His Life and Times, 1813-1867

John Jones Pettus (American National Biography)

Scholarship

William L. Barney, "Pettus, John Jones," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00782.html.

Insisting that the Republicans would force emancipation on Mississippi and turn the state into "a cesspool of vice, crime and infancy," Pettus led the forces that took Mississippi out of the Union on 9 January 1861….

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