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Thomas Hart Benton
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Thomas Hart Benton
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Portrait of Missouri political figure, Thomas Hart Benton, by Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle, circa 1861.
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Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Silhouette of Lydia Maria Francis Child by Auguste Edouart, 1841. Child published the poem, "The Kansas Emigrants," in the New York Daily Tribune on October 23, 1856, in reponse to the caning of Senator Charles Sumner by Representative Preston Brooks.
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Image
Date
1841
James Buchanan
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James Buchanan
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Engraving of James Buchanan by John Chester Buttre from 1857.
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Image
Date
1857
Sterling Price
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Sterling Price
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Portrait of General Sterling Price taken by photographer Daniel T. Cowell in 1862.
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Image
Date
1862
Andrew Johnson
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Andrew Johnson
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Lithograph of Andrew Johnson, circa 1865.
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Image
Charles Sumner
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Charles Sumner
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Lithograph of Senator Charles Sumner. The nation was polarized after Representative Preston Brooks (Democrat, South Carolina) caned antislavery Senator Charles Sumner (Republican, Massachusetts) nearly to death in the U.S. Senate chambers on May 22, 1856. Sumner delivered an anti-slavery speech called "The Crime against Kansas" two days before, and he spent the next three years recovering from his injuries. Southerners sent Brooks canes as a show of solidarity on the slavery issue.
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Image
Republican Banner for 1860
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Republican Banner for 1860
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Republican Party banner for the 1860 Presidential campaign featuring Abraham Lincoln of Illinois for president and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine for vice president.
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Image
Date
1860
Assassination of President Lincoln
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Assassination of President Lincoln
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Joseph Edward Baker painting of John Wilkes Booth fleeing the scene of President Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater.
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Image