Catherine L. Bragg Letters, 1840-1841.

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Catherine L. Bragg Letters, 1840-1841.

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Letters from Catherine Bragg, Lexington, Ky., to Catherine Gould, East Granby, Ct. The letter dated 8 October 1840 describes the trip to Kentucky in great detail, and a meeting with "Mrs. Johnson," the current mistress of Vice President Richard M. Johnson, and her two "milk and molasses children" on a stagecoach in Maysville. She describes southern food and the slaves she has seen. The second later, dated 13 January 1841 indicates Bragg is not fond of Kentucky. She asks her "sister" to keep abolitionist opinions to herself as Bragg now lives in a slave state, saying slaveholders should be pitied more so than the slaves. She also reports the preparations to prevent a slave revolt, which all feared would take place at Christmas, but never occurred.

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Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1780-1850

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Richard Mentor Johnson (October 17, 1780 – November 19, 1850) was a politician and the ninth vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. He is the only vice president elected by the United States Senate under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment. Johnson also represented Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate; he began and ended his political career in the Kentucky House of Representatives. Johnson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1806 in the...

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