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1863 Civil War CDV Photos of Santo Domingo Slavery Commission to Abraham Lincoln

1863 Civil War CDV Photos of Santo Domingo Slavery Commission to Abraham Lincoln

1863 Civil War CDV Photos of Santo Domingo Slavery Commission to Abraham Lincoln   1863 Civil War CDV Photos of Santo Domingo Slavery Commission to Abraham Lincoln

This is a rare set of four original Carte de Visite photographs showing the Santo Domingo Governmental commission on their historic visit with Abraham Lincoln concerning slavery in the year 1863. They traveled to Washington in order to hear the proposal by President Lincoln of having southern slaves from America form a free colony in Santo Domingo.

In the Overland Monthly and Out West magazine/Volume 9, Issue 52, San Francisco, 1887, pp. 540, 541 - "An Episode of the Civil War, " John T. Doyle he writes At another time, Mr. Lincoln publicly recommended Central America to a delegation of blacks who waited on him, as a suited by climate and so fourth to colonization by their people.

In the fall of 1862 there appeared in New York a certain Mr. Koch, with a queer story and a queer project...

He had conceived the project of taking to Santo Domingo a colony of blacks from the United States, procuring a great of land, and settling them on it, to raise cotton. These images show the Santo Domingo delegation as they were photographed by Charles Fredericks (during the Civil War).

1863 Civil War CDV Photos of Santo Domingo Slavery Commission to Abraham Lincoln. This is a rare set of four original Carte de Visite photographs showing the. On their historic visit with Abraham Lincoln concerning slavery in the year 1863.

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1863 Civil War CDV Photos of Santo Domingo Slavery Commission to Abraham Lincoln   1863 Civil War CDV Photos of Santo Domingo Slavery Commission to Abraham Lincoln