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Subtitle: The Border States and Slavery.

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)

Although the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January, 1863, some states were slow to free their slaves. The writer comments on some state government restrictions placed on emancipation.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century

Keywords: Delaware; emancipation; freedom; Kentucky; law; Maryland; Missouri; slave states; Slavery; state government; Tennessee

People: Bayard, James A.; Clayton, J. M.

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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