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Cover "Negro Slavery in Massachusetts"
1887
L98.053
Slavery had been abolished for decades in New England when Robert Rantoul presented his paper on "Negro Slavery in Massachusetts" in 1833 but slavery was firmly entrenched in the South and the national debate over this 'Peculiar Institution' was growing stronger and more divisive.

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