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Adventures of a gold digger... Slave trade abolished in the District of Columbia...
Adventures of a gold digger... Slave trade abolished in the District of Columbia...
Item # 684246
September 18, 1850
SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, New York, Sept. 18, 1850
* Slavery trade abolished
* District of Columbia
* Fugitive Slaves Act of 1850
* Passes the United States Senate
The front page has most of a column headed "Abolition of the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia--Bill Ordered to be Engrossed--All the Amendments Rejected--Fremont's California Indian Bill..." with much detail.
Page 5 has a fascinating and quite lengthy letter headed: "The Adventures of a Gold Digger on the Upper Yuba". Among the subheads are: "Feather River" "Mining On the Yuba" "The Forks of the Yuba" "Mining Success" "Lost In The Snow" and more.
Eight pages, very nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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