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  • The Cartography of Slavery and the Authority of Statistics
  • Susan Schulten
Figure 1. Francis Bicknell Carpenter, First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln (oil on canvas, 1864), U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Carpenter painstakingly reproduced the map in the lower right corner of the painting after he noticed that it captured Lincoln's attention.
Figure 1.

Francis Bicknell Carpenter, First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln (oil on canvas, 1864), U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Carpenter painstakingly reproduced the map in the lower right corner of the painting after he noticed that it captured Lincoln's attention.

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