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his stoic likeness fixed in the very year Dred Scott detonated through the Court and the country leaned hard toward its reckoning

The sitter belongs already to the country's mourning

his Seventh of March speech already echoing toward the rupture it briefly forestalled

Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The engraver understood what telescopesEmancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri the legislative breath by which a border state, long torn between Union loyalty and slaveholding habit, finally set its bondsmen free. The document carries the dry cadence of statute and the seismic weight of a republic dragging itself, clause by clause, toward its own stated creed. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive