Knights of the Golden CircleAddress 1860

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Knights of the Golden CircleAddress 1860

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An address, in a bound typescriptvolume, comprises the Knights of the Golden Circle Address, 1860, given at a generalconvention of the KGC in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Knights of the Golden Circle

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Created in 1854 by George W. L. Bickley, a Virginia-born physician, the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was a secret organization that sympathized with the southern states and sought to establish a slaveholding nation encompassing the southern United States and Central America in a “Golden Circle.” The group championed the preservation of slavery from the perceived threat of northern Abolitionism. By 1859, KGC membership spread through the southern states and Texas, where the gro...

Bickley, George W. L., 1823-1867

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