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Title: Discussion On American Slavery, Between George Thompson, ESQ., & Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge
Date: 1836
Description: Holden in the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw's Chapel, Glasgow, Scotland. Book contains speeches from two clergyman debating slavery. George Thompson, ESQ. is an agent of the British and Foreign Society for the Abolition of Slavery Thorughout The World and Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge is a delegate from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, to the Congressional Union of England and Wales.

Title: A View of the Slave Population of the Several Counties of Missouri, Showing the Whole Number of Slaves in Each County
Date: 1862
Description: This map by Leigh shows visually that Missouri was not split over slavery north to south or east to west, from 1820 and before, slavery followed the Missouri River valley and rich agricultural and industrial heartland of the state out of St. Louis, straight to Kansas City.

Title: The Lion and the Unicorn Fighting
Date: 1876-06-17
Description: "THE LION AND THE UNICORN FIGHTING" - AGAIN (?) British Lion (to Lord D - Unicorn). "What! give up the Fugitive Slave, and not the Criminal Fugitive!" Political Cartoon

Title: P-103 Morse, William H. California Gold Rush Correspondence
Date: 1849-04-04
Description: This letter was written in 1849 by a forty-niner in St. Louis, one William H. Morse, to a friend back home in New England. He’s been in St. Louis for three weeks, the last stop on the frontier, as he prepares to embark on a journey westward on the overland trail, making his way to California in search of gold. He describes his 35 day trip thus far, from an unnamed town in the northeast, south

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