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Title: Frederick Douglass' Paper - June 2, 1854

Speaker or author: Watkins, William J.

Newspaper or publication: Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851 - 18??)

The writer tells his readers that the Nebraska Act has stirred up political focus on the question of continued slavery and is succeeding in dividing the country politically in this regard.

Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column

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

Keywords: Fugitive Slave Law; government; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Nebraska Bill; politics; slaveholding; Slavery

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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