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“I am of [the] opinion, that there will be a secession of the Slave States from the Free States”: A Savannah Cotton Merchant Predicts Disunion Amid the Furor over the “Boston N—r Stealers”.
Savannah, Georgia: December 10, 1850. Autograph letter signed, E. Crane, to Fisher & Co. 2pp, 7 ½ x 9 ¾ inches. A revealing cotton market letter written from Savannah in the immediate aftermath of the Compromise of 1850 and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act. Addressed to a Northern.....