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Friday, May 11, 2018
Lake County was a Free Soil Stronghold
Lake County was a stronghold for the Free-Soil Party (Abolitionists) before the Civil War of America.
In this 1850 political cartoon, the artist attacks abolitionist, Free Soil and other sectionalist interests of 1850 as dangers to the Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Soil_Party
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