Journey of a Slave From the Plantation to the Battlefield 1863 USA framed map 1838 catches the future president

1838 catches the future president mid-ascent

smoke pouring from the Capitol's old west front while clerks hauled volumes into the cold air

an engraved gallery published in the long shadow of Reconstruction when the Court's authority — over commerce

The parlor here is a balm

Theodore Frelinghuysen: Nominated for Vice President of the United States 1844 — a Whig campaign portrait of Henry Clay's running mate

Journey of a Slave From the Plantation to the Battlefield 1863 USA framed map 1838 catches the future presidentJourney of a Slave From the Plantation to the Battlefield 1863 a narrative lithograph tracing the arc from cotton row to Union blue, drawn in the same year Lincoln's Proclamation turned bondsmen into soldiers and the war's moral ledger came due in ink. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers