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United States: Eastern Portion

Description: Map shows existing and proposed railroad lines and canals, cities and towns, lighthouses, eastern states, and western territories. Includes legend and text on slavery, and notes. Inset: "Sketch of the River Niagara" [includes descriptive text and measured heights]. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:5,360,000].
Date: [1842..1862]
Creator: Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

United States, North America : Northern limit of slavery in Western States shown by Mason & Dixon's Line.

Description: Map shows Mason and Dixon's line from California to Arkansas, state and territorial boundaries, major cities and towns, areas of Indian habitation, and notable geographical features; Washington, Oregon, Nebraska, Kansas, and Indian territories, New Mexico, Utah, Texas, and California. Includes notes. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 11,000,000].
Date: [1854..1861]
Creator: W. & R. Chambers Ltd.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map showing the distribution of slaves in the Southern States.

Description: Map shows distribution of slave population, state and territorial boundaries, and major cities; agricultural products for the southern states on inset. Includes table of statistics and key to map. Insets: "British Isles on the same scale" and "Products of the Southern States." Scale [ca. 1:6,500,000].
Date: 1861
Creator: Steinwehr, A. von (Adolph), 1822-1877
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the United States and territories: showing the possessions and aggressions of the slave power.

Description: Map shows slave holding [dark shaded], non-slave holding [unshaded], and disputed territorries [grayed] parts of the United States during the decade before Civil War. The "Missouri Compromise" is indicated with a parallel line extending from the northern Arkansas border to California. No scale indicated. Political representation of slave holding, non-slave holding, and territories is also indicated. This broadside was printed and distributed in support of 1856 Republican Party presidential cand… more
Date: 1856
Creator: Bloss, William C.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

A Map of the British American plantations : extending from Boston in New England to Georgia; including all the back settlements in the respective provinces, as far as the Mississippi.

Description: Map shows areas of Native American habitation, colonial boundaries, military outposts, and a transportation route extending from Lake Erie and along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:6,350,000].
Date: 1754
Creator: Bowen, Emanuel, d. 1767
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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