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These printed lyric sheets provide the words to "The Freeman's Song," which conveyed an anti-slavery message and to "The Kansas Emigrant Song" about the need for free state emigrants to populate the West.
Creator: Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Date: 1854
Item Number: 90446
Call Number: Port vault 811 W61
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90446
Collections - Library
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Literature - Poetry
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Music
Date - 1854-1860 - 1854
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Lyric sheet
People - African Americans - Slavery
People - Notable People - Whittier, John Greenleaf
Places - Other States - Massachusetts
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Printed materials - Lyric sheets
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