Friday, November 6, 2009

Abolition Of Slavery

On the 14th inst., a petition was presented in the Senate by Senator Sumner, seven hundred feet long, signed by fifteen thousand women, praying for the abolition of slavery throughout the United States.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport Iowa, Friday Morning, April 18, 1862, p. 2

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