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Slavery and Abolitionists

 
  Slave population of the southern states, 1861
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  Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States, compiled from the census of 1860
Washington: Census Office, 1861
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

This map, which shows the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States, was sold to benefit the sick and wounded soldiers of the North, the Grand Army of the Republic.

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