Julius Rubens Ames, Moral Map of U.S. 1847 Cornell CUL PJM 2051 01

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.

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