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  • The Cartography of Slavery and the Authority of Statistics
  • Susan Schulten
Figure 3. George Colton's map of the Union, published immediately after passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, emphasizes the geopolitical encirclement of the northeast made possible by the doctrine of popular sovereignty. Originally published in the New-York Independent.
Figure 3.

George Colton's map of the Union, published immediately after passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, emphasizes the geopolitical encirclement of the northeast made possible by the doctrine of popular sovereignty. Originally published in the New-York Independent.

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