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.

2 items ; 32 and 25 cm.

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Charles Sumner was born on January 6, 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Relief Jacob and Charles Pinckney Sumner. He graduated from Boston Latin School (1826), Harvard University (1830), and Harvard Law School (1833), and joined the abolitionist movement in Boston, centered in his home neighborhood of Beacon Hill. He acted as co-counsel in a case, Roberts v. City of Boston, that challenged the segregation of Boston’s public school system. In 1852, Sumner was elected to the United States Senate. ...

Villamera, Serapio.

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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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