Title

Edward Bates, between 1855 and 1865. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Hon. Edward Bates, between 1855 and 1865. [Slave owner, lawyer and politician: Attorney General. 'While Bates is considered by some modern scholars as "generally unsympathetic to the cause of African American freedom," he emancipated all of his slaves, and paid for his last former slave's passage to Liberia by 1851'].

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A76_315

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Rights managed

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97,8Mb (973,3Kb) / 16,6in x 23,0in / 4965 x 6886 (300dpi)

Keywords

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