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Author/Creator:Blair family.
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Title:Blair family papers, 1755-1968 [electronic resource], 1651-1977 1793-1949.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (241 manuscripts; 12,804 items).
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Links:Online text
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Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
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Notes:Reproduction of the original from the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
- Access and use:Access restricted by licensing agreement.
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Summary:The Blair family was involved in national politics, and the family's papers illustrate Maryland politics at the time of the Civil War. The collection also contains a file on the Dred Scott case. The collection allows researchers to examine state and national politics in the decades before the Civil War, and offer insights on the Dred Scott case and on the legal status of enslaved persons in free states.
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Variant and related titles:Institution of slavery
Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3, Institution of slavery.
- Format:Book
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Series:Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery
Slavery & anti-slavery.
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Subjects:Blair family--Archives.
Blair, Francis Preston, 1791-1876--Archives.
Blair, Montgomery, 1813-1883--Archives.
Blair, Frank P. (Frank Preston), 1821-1875--Archives.
Blair, Gist, 1860-1940--Archives.
Slavery--United States--Legal status of enslaved persons in free states--Sources.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States--Politics and government--19th century--Sources.
United States--Politics and government--1861-1865--Sources.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11190202