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Map Showing the Distribution of the Slave Population of the Southern States of the United States Compiled from the Census of 1860, engraved by Thomas Leonhardt after a map drawn by Edwin Hergesheimer (Washington: Henry S. Graham, September 1861). Library of Congress
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