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Title: Map Showing the Distribution of the Slave Population of the Southern States of the United States
Description: Map created by the U.S. Coast Survey in 1861 using census data from 1860, which depicts the distribution of slavery in Southern counties of the United States. The map indicates the percentage of slaves in each county by varying shades of gray.
Object Type: Map
Date: September, 1861

Title: Reynolds's Political Map of the United States
Description: Printed on map: "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. With a comparison of the principal statistics of the free and slave states, from the census of 1850." Political map delineating the slave states, free states, and open territories, ca. 1856. The maps were created as political propaganda for the first Republican Party candidate for President, John C. Fremont, whose likeness is visible in the upper left corner of the map.
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad
Description: Map of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, which was chartered in 1847 and completed in 1859. Map depicts northern Missouri and parts of Kansas and Illinois, showing rivers, settlements, railroads, and the land grant awarded to the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad.
Object Type: Map, Image

Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865