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CollectionJohn J. Crittenden papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, speeches, legal papers, and other papers. Chiefly correspondence covering Crittenden's career as U.S. attorney general and U.S. senator from and governor of Kentucky. Subjects include national politics, particularly banking and tariff matters, slavery, Mexico, and Texas; the southern Whigs; Crittenden's relations with Henry Clay; reactions to the Crittenden Compromise; and Kentucky politics and law. Correspondents include George Edmund Badger, Francis Preston Blair, Orlando...
- Contributor: Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan)
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CollectionLewis Tappan papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, notebooks, autobiographical and genealogical material, scrapbook, and other papers chiefly reflecting Tappan's activities in the antislavery movement. Documents his interest in African American education, the colonization of freedmen in Africa, the role of the Christian in the abolition movement, and religion especially Calvinist and Unitarian theology. Subjects include the annexation of Texas; efforts for the release from custody of the African...
- Contributor: Tappan, Lewis