Letter : to Charles Sumner, 1867.

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Letter : to Charles Sumner, 1867.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612870097

The letter concerns the practice of holding Mexican and Indians in peonage and involuntary servitude in the New Mexico territory and a plea to Sumner to push action in Congress to repeal the laws. The warrant concerns Villamera's breaking of the peonage law and the service he still owed his "master" Rafael Bermudas.

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Villamera, Serapio.

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...

Arny, W. F. M. (William Frederick Milton), 1813-1881

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Arny was acting governor the the territory of New Mexico, 1865-1867. From the description of Letter : to Charles Sumner, 1867. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612870097 Arny was Secretary of the Territory of New Mexico in the 1860s and later became an Indian agent. From the description of William Frederick Milton Arny letter, 1868. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37518561 From the guide to the William Frederick Milton Arny L...

Trujillo, M.

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Bermudas, Rafael.

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