Moral Map of U.S. 1847
Julius Rubens Ames
This anti-slavery map was first published in 1837, before the annexation of Texas and republished several times up to 1857. It shows the slave states in black, with black-and-white shading representing the threatened spread of slavery into Texas and the western territories.
- Date
- 1847
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Julius Rubens Ames
- Place
- the United States
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 3,080 × 3,300 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-70-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
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