Folder S2582
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Slavery speech
Collection — Folder: S2582
Identifier: S2582
Scope and Contents
The item appears to have been handwritten hastily in pencil on a sheet of paper. The fragment is 8 3/4" in height and 8" in width.The top portion of the page is torn. Transcription of fragment: "... Slavery ...and the ... would have perished beneath the weight of its own crime again[s]t humanity. And when we raise a column to perpetuate the glory of the Indiana Sold[i]ery in the war for the perpetuity of the nation, we should at lea[s]t consecrate the pedestal to the memory of our...
Dates:
circa 1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Slavery speech