Legislative Branch - Slavery

EEC Type of Source

Legislative Branch - Lawmaking

EEC Theme Topic

https://www.loc.gov/item/2003689280/

EEC Index Number

307

EEC Theme

Legislative Branch

EEC Topics

Lawmaking

Slavery

Anthony Burns

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Anthony Burns scollini Wed, 08/02/2017 - 10:44

LOC URL

LOC Title

Anthony Burns / drawn by Barry from a daguereotype [sic] by Whipple & Black ; John Andrews, sc.

LOC Summary

Print shows a portrait of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whose arrest and trial under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 touched off riots and protests by abolitionists and citizens of Boston in the spring of 1854. A bust portrait of the twenty-four-year-old Burns is surrounded by scenes from his life. These include (clockwise from lower left): the sale of the youthful Burns at auction, a whipping post with bales of cotton, his arrest in Boston on May 24, 1854, his escape from Richmond on shipboard, his departure from Boston escorted by federal marshals and troops, Burns's "address" (to the court?), and finally Burns in prison. Copyrighting works such as prints and pamphlets under the name of the subject (here Anthony Burns) was a common abolitionist practice. This was no doubt the case in this instance, since by 1855 Burns had in fact been returned to his owner in Virginia. (Source: Reilly)

LOC Contributor Names

Andrews, John, engraver

LOC Created/Published

Boston : R.M. Edwards, printer, 129 Congress Street, c1855.

LOC Standardized Date

1855

LOC Subject Headings

- Burns, Anthony,--1834-1862
- Fugitive slaves--Massachusetts--Boston--1850-1860
- Abolition movement--Massachusetts--Boston--1850-1860

LOC Notes

- Title from item.
- Inscribed in ink on verso: 230.
- Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by Anthony Burns in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
- The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on January 25, 1855.
- Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1855-7.

EEC Creators

John Andrews

EEC Source Year

1855

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Illustration

EEC Theme Topic

https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=038/llsp038.db&recNu…

EEC Index Number

336

Question

What law is associated with this source?

Correct Answer

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Incorrect Answer

Voting Rights Act

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Social Security Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

Alien and Sedition Act

Immigration Act of 1917

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question

What does this source promote?

Correct Answer

Abolition of Slavery

Incorrect Answer

Slavery

Freedom of Petition

Freedom of Religion

Freedom of Speech

Women's Suffrage

Democracy

Prohibition

Labor Unions

Question

What is depicted in the source?

Correct Answer

Slavery

Incorrect Answer

Voting

Military Draft

Paying Taxes

Freedom of the Press

Freedom of Speech

Campaigning

Freedom of Religion

Freedom of Assembly

EEC Theme

Legislative Branch

EEC Topics

Slavery

Prohibition of Slavery in Missouri

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Prohibition of Slavery in Missouri scollini Mon, 07/31/2017 - 12:11

LOC URL

LOC Title

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875
American State Papers, Senate, 16th Congress, 1st Session
Miscellaneous: Volume 2
Page 572 of 1043

LOC Contributor Names

16th Congress, 1st Session

LOC Standardized Date

January 18, 1820

EEC Creators

16th U.S. Congress

EEC Source Day

EEC Source Month

January

EEC Source Year

1820

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

EEC Theme Topic

https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=003/llsl003.db&recNu…

EEC Index Number

332

EEC Theme

Legislative Branch

EEC Topics

Slavery

Excerpt from Missouri Compromise

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Excerpt from Missouri Compromise scollini Fri, 07/14/2017 - 10:15

LOC URL

LOC Title

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875
Statutes at Large, 16th Congress, 1st Session

LOC Contributor Names

16th Congress

LOC Created/Published

March 6, 1820

LOC Standardized Date

1820

EEC Creators

16th U.S. Congress

EEC Source Day

EEC Source Month

March

EEC Source Year

1820

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Legislation

EEC Theme Topic

Legislative Branch - Legislation

https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.21002200/

EEC Index Number

273

EEC Theme

EEC Topics

Slavery in the District of Columbia

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Slavery in the District of Columbia scollini Wed, 07/12/2017 - 15:42

LOC URL

LOC Title

Slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia.

LOC Created/Published

Washington. No date

LOC Subject Headings

- United States--District of Columbia--Washington

LOC Notes

- Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML.
- Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 210, Folder 22.

EEC Creators

Unknown

EEC Source Year

1849

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Poster

EEC Theme Topic

https://www.loc.gov/item/2003627003/

EEC Index Number

204

Off

EEC Theme

EEC Topics

Area of the Free and Slave States

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Area of the Free and Slave States scollini Fri, 06/02/2017 - 12:17

LOC URL

LOC Title

Reynolds's political map of the United States, designed to exhibit the comparative area of the free and slave states and the territory open to slavery or freedom by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.

LOC Contributor Names

Reynolds, William C.
Jones, J. C.

LOC Created/Published

New York : Wm. C. Reynolds and J.C. Jones, c1856.

LOC Standardized Date

1856

LOC Subject Headings

Slavery--United States--Maps
- United States

LOC Notes

- Relief shown by hachures.
- Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Includes statistics from the 1850 census and ill.

EEC Creators

William Reynolds

EEC Source Year

1856

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Map

EEC Theme Topic

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85026050/1865-02-03/ed-1/seq-2/

EEC Theme

EEC Topics

Glory to God!

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Glory to God! scollini Thu, 06/01/2017 - 15:32

LOC URL

LOC Title

Glory to God!/ Fremont Journal

LOC Contributor Names

Fremont Journal

LOC Created/Published

February 3, 1865

LOC Standardized Date

1865

LOC Subject Headings

Fremont (Ohio)--Newspapers.
Ohio--Fremont.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01227962
Ohio--Sandusky County.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01221007
Sandusky County (Ohio)--Newspapers.

LOC Notes

Archived issues are available in digital format as part of the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
Daily ed.: Fremont journal extra, 1861.
Publisher: Wilcox & Greene, <1866>.

EEC Creators

Fremont Journal

EEC Source Day

EEC Source Month

February

EEC Source Year

1865

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Newspaper

EEC Theme Topic

Constitution - 13th Amendment

Constitution - Article V

Legislative Branch - Article I

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3861e.cw0013200/

EEC Theme

EEC Topics

Slave Population of the Southern States

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Slave Population of the Southern States scollini Thu, 06/01/2017 - 15:07

LOC URL

LOC Title

Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860

LOC Summary

[Description] Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 13.2 "Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1861 by Henry S. Graham." "Sold for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers of the U.S. Army." "Census Office, Department of the Interior, Washington, Sept. 9th, 1861. After a careful examination of the above very interesting map I am prepared to state that it not only furnishes the evidences of great care in its execution, but can be relied on as corresponding with the official returns of the 8th Census. [Signed in facsimile] Jos. C. G. Kennedy, Superintendent." Map indicates by gray patterns, the percentage of slaves in each county. "It should be observed, that several counties appear comparatively light. This arises from the preponderance of whites and free blacks in the large towns in those counties. . . The figures in each county represent the percentage of slaves. . ." "Scale of shade" printed in lower right corner. Includes population table based on census of 1860. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

LOC Contributor Names

Hergesheimer, E. (Edwin)

LOC Created/Published

Washington Henry S. Graham 1861.

LOC Standardized Date

1861

LOC Subject Headings

- Slavery--Southern States--Maps
- Southern States--Maps
- United States--Southern States

LOC Notes

- Scale ca. 1:3,000,000.
- LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 13.2
- "Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1861 by Henry S. Graham."
- "Sold for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers of the U.S. Army."
- "Census Office, Department of the Interior, Washington, Sept. 9th, 1861. After a careful examination of the above very interesting map I am prepared to state that it not only furnishes the evidences of great care in its execution, but can be relied on as corresponding with the official returns of the 8th Census. [Signed in facsimile] Jos. C. G. Kennedy, Superintendent."
- Map indicates by gray patterns, the percentage of slaves in each county. "It should be observed, that several counties appear comparatively light. This arises from the preponderance of whites and free blacks in the large towns in those counties. . . The figures in each county represent the percentage of slaves. . ."
- "Scale of shade" printed in lower right corner.
- Includes population table based on census of 1860.
- Description derived from published bibliography.
- Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

EEC Creators

Edwin Hergesheimer

EEC Source Year

1861

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Map

EEC Theme Topic

https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal3/436/4361100/malp…

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Question

What is depicted in the source?

Correct Answer

Slavery

Incorrect Answer

Segregation

Immigration

Popular Vote

Presidential Election

Representative Government

13th Amendment

Electoral College

Political Parties

Question

What is the time period of this source?

Correct Answer

1860-1877

Incorrect Answer

1000-1763

1754-1820

1801-1860

1870-1900

1890-1930

1929-1945

1945-1970

1968-2017

Question

What group is represented in this source?

Correct Answer

Enslaved Population

Incorrect Answer

Political Party

Federal Government

Immigrant Population

Military

U.S. Congress

Electoral College

Native American Population

Church Members

EEC Theme

EEC Topics

13th Amendment Signed

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13th Amendment Signed scollini Wed, 08/03/2016 - 16:42

LOC URL

LOC Title

Joint Resolution Submitting 13th Amendment to the States; signed by Abraham Lincoln and Congress

LOC Contributor Names

Congress

LOC Created/Published

February 01, 1865

LOC Standardized Date

February 01, 1865

EEC Creators

38th U.S. Congress

EEC Source Day

EEC Source Month

February

EEC Source Year

1865

EEC Format

EEC Type of Source

Legislation

EEC Theme Topic

Constitution - 13th Amendment

https://www.loc.gov/item/2004665356/

EEC Internal Notes

GK White reviewed 8/4/16

EEC Theme

EEC Topics

Reconstruction

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Reconstruction scollini Wed, 07/20/2016 - 12:55

LOC URL

LOC Title

Reconstruction / eng. by J.L. Giles, N.Y. ; printed by F[rancis] Ratellier, 171 Broadway, N.Y.

LOC Summary

Print shows a grand allegory of the reconciliation of North and South through the federal program of Reconstruction. Visionary in its breadth and scale, the work is a remarkable combination of religious and patriotic ideology. In "Bateman's National Picture" (as the print is termed in a published key) the government is represented as a colossal pavilion-like structure. It has a broad, flattened dome or canopy, on which is drawn a map of the United States, with a shallow drum with a frieze showing the Senate, House of Representatives, Supreme Court, and cabinet. The drum is supported by two systems of slender columns--the straight, outer ones representing the state governments, and the curved inner ones the people. Atop the dome is an eagle with flag and shield. The structure is literally undergoing "reconstruction." The bases of the columns of the former Confederate states are being replaced with new ones. The old bases are called "Foundations of Slavery." The new ones represent Justice, Liberty, and Education. Under the watchful supervision of the military, civilians carry the new columns and put them into place. The scene is teeming with other symbols and figures. The sky is filled with a multitude of faces--American statesman, public figures, and other historical characters (among others, Joan of Arc and John Milton). Daniel Webster and John Calhoun are prominently featured. The aerial host surrounds the figure of Christ, who says, "Do to other as you would have them do to you." Flanking the group are Justice (left) and Liberty (right). Below, beneath the canopy, representatives of the North are reconciled with their Southern counterparts. Union generals Benjamin Butler and Ulysses S. Grant clasp hands with Confederates P. T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee, respectively, and Horace Greeley embraces Jefferson Davis. Below in a small vignette two infants--one black and one white--lie sleeping in their baskets. Above them flies an eagle with a streamer reading ""All men are born free and equal." (Source: Reilly)

LOC Contributor Names

Giles, J. L. (John Lawrence), lithographer
Bateman, Horatio, copyright claimant

LOC Created/Published

[New York] : Printed by F. Ratellier, 171 Broadway, N.Y., c1867.

LOC Standardized Date

1867

LOC Subject Headings

- Beauregard, G. T.--(Gustave Toutant),--1818-1893
- Butler, Benjamin F.--(Benjamin Franklin),--1818-1893
- Calhoun, John C.--(John Caldwell),--1782-1850
- Davis, Jefferson,--1808-1889
- Grant, Ulysses S.--(Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885
- Greeley, Horace,--1811-1872
- Lee, Robert E.--(Robert Edward),--1807-1870
- Webster, Daniel,--1782-1852
- United States.--Army
- United States.--Congress.--House
- United States.--Congress.--Senate
- United States.--Supreme Court
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Justice--United States--1860-1870
- Slavery--United States--1860-1870

LOC Notes

- Title from item.
- Printed on stone on lower right: Desgd. by H. Bateman. Engd. by J.L. Giles.
- "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867, by Horatio Bateman, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the S. District of N.Y."
- A key to this print is in LOT 11507.
- Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1867-2.
- Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 2015.

EEC Creators

John L. Giles

EEC Source Year

1867

EEC Format

Citizenship - 14th Amendment

EEC Type of Source

Illustration

EEC Theme Topic