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Anti-Slave Catchers' Mass Convention
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Poster advertising an Anti-Slave Catchers' Mass Convention at Young's Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 13th, 1854. The poster attempts to unite individuals opposed to slavery or slave-catchers, and "having the Free Soil of Wisconsin become a hunting ground for human kidnappers."
April 1854
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WHi 1928
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