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The war with Mexico changed the country’s contours. Following the war, a major concern was the status of these newly acquired lands – would they be slave or free? And what rights of citizenship would their residents receive? While state boundaries are not shown on the map itself, the presence of state symbols surround the map and underscore its message: Would the tenuous balance of slave and free states, which had held since the country’s founding, continue or be upset as states were carved out of this new territory?
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Document identity
localId
xg94j2112
label
Lewis' free soil, slavery, and territorial map of the United States
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
xg94j2112
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Lewis' free soil, slavery, and territorial map of the United States
description
The war with Mexico changed the country’s contours. Following the war, a major concern was the status of these newly acquired lands – would they be slave or free? And what rights of citizenship would their residents receive? While state boundaries are not shown on the map itself, the presence of state symbols surround the map and underscore its message: Would the tenuous balance of slave and free states, which had held since the country’s founding, continue or be upset as states were carved out of this new territory?
date
["[1848]"]
year
1848
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_006529
creators
Lewis, John C., 1820-1883
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Slavery--United States--Maps
United States--Maps
subjectsGeographic
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
New York
publisher
John Lewis
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
38
schema:longitude
-98
extent
1 map : col. ; 35 x 37 cm, on sheet 47 x 61 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures.
Includes text and decorative border with the seals of numerous states.
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no
dcId
xg94j2112
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map
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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4b6992b77a973c46