Freedom and Slavery, and the Coveted Territories
This map warning of the expansion of slavery into the west appears on the back cover of a biography issued by Horace Greeley in support of John Fremont in the 1856 Presidential election campaign. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Date
- 1856
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Cornell University Library
- Place
- free and slave states
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 4,815 × 3,148 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its US copyright has expired (published before 1931).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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