Product code: CIVIL WAR & GOLD RUSH SIGNED online CHINESE COOLIES SLAVERY ABOLITIONIST CONGRESSMAN MA
INVREF#CL4-25 THOMAS DAWES ELIOT “…Upon the question of slavery I can have but one judgment; and when its extension is sought to be effected over Territories now free, I would resist it without misgiving and without fear…” T. D. Eliot, Speech in Congress, May 10, 1854 HERE'S ELIOT'S online SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19th CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, and SIGNED: “Thomas D. Eliot New Bedford Masstts~” The document has been inlaid to another sheet, measures 6” x 4” and is in VERY FINE CONDITION. A FINE ADDITION TO YOUR COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS CIVIL WAR ERA POLITICAL HISTORY Coolies were recruited in China as contract laborers but treated like slaves once they arrived in California. He authored a bill, introduced in December 1861, passed by the Thirty-seventh Congress, and signed by President Lincoln in February 1862, which prohibited American vessels from engaging in the trade that brought coolies to the United States.
INVREF#CL4-25 THOMAS DAWES ELIOT “…Upon the question of slavery I can have but one judgment; and when its extension is sought to be effected over Territories now free, I would resist it without misgiving and without fear…” T. D. Eliot, Speech in Congress, May 10, 1854 HERE'S ELIOT'S online SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19th CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, and SIGNED: “Thomas D. Eliot New Bedford Masstts~” The document has been inlaid to another sheet, measures 6” x 4” and is in VERY FINE CONDITION. A FINE ADDITION TO YOUR COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS CIVIL WAR ERA POLITICAL HISTORY Coolies were recruited in China as contract laborers but treated like slaves once they arrived in California. He authored a bill, introduced in December 1861, passed by the Thirty-seventh Congress, and signed by President Lincoln in February 1862, which prohibited American vessels from engaging in the trade that brought coolies to the United States.