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1860 Civil War Slave Document, U.S. Grants Vice President Henry Wilson

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1860 Civil War Slave Document, U.S. Grants Vice President Henry Wilson
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1860 Black History - “Agressions of the Slave Power” Later VP of the US Henry Wilson Replies to Confederate Jefferson Davis!
1860 Slave-Related Document, (later U.S. Grant's Republican Vice President) Henry Wilson on Black Americana, in Reply to (later Confederate States President) Jefferson Davis, Choice Very Fine.
January 26, 1860-Dated Printed Booklet titled, “Agressions of the Slave Power. Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts. In Reply to Hon. Jefferson Davis, Delivered in the Senate January 26, 1860.” Published by Buell & Blanchard, Printers, Washington, D.C. This 8-page printed copy of a speech by Wilson given in the Senate measures 5.75” x 9”. An amazing contest of ideas!
Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was the 18th Vice President of the United States (1873–1875) and a Senator from Massachusetts (1855–1873). Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery. He devoted his energies to the destruction of the "Slave Power" - the faction of slave owners and their political allies which anti-slavery Americans saw as dominating the country.

He was considered a "Radical Republican". After the Civil War, he supported the Radical program for Reconstruction. In 1872, he was elected Vice President as running mate with President Ulysses S. Grant, and served from March 4, 1873 until his death on November 22, 1875.