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Subject(s)

• Slavery—United States—History—Sources [Browse]
• United States—History—1783-1865—Sources [Browse]
• United States—History—1865-1898—Sources [Browse]

Related name

• Library of Congress. Manuscript Division [Browse]
• Metro Co-operative Acquisition Fund [Browse]

Notes

• Microfilm (35 mm.) of items in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. (DM 15,135)
• Lawyer, journalist, author, and statesman; Governor of Georgia, member of both Houses of Congress, and Vice President of the Confederate States of America. Correspondence, MSS. of autobiography and journal (1834-37), telegrams, memoranda, legal documents, and clippings. Chiefly letters received, including those of Stephens' slaves, and dealing with plantation matters, philanthropy, and local affairs, as well as such sectional questions as slavery, Indian affairs, the Texas issue, territorial expansion, political parties (Whig, Know-Nothing, Democratic, and Republican), States' rights, Compromise of 1859, Kansas-Nebraska bill, Dredd Scott decision, secession, formation and operation of the Confederate Government, the Civil War and Reconstruction, campaign of 1876, transportation, the tariff, education, and other social, economic, literary, and political matters.
• METRO CO-OPERATIVE ACQUISITION FUND.

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