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Scene in Uncle Sam’s Senate

This is a political cartoon depicting a heated moment in the senate debate about admitting California as a free state, during the Compromise of 1850. On the left, Mississippi senator Henry Foot is pointing a pistol at the senator of Missouri, Thomas…

Tags: 19th century, California, Cartoon, Compromise, contract labour, free state, Gold Rush, Henry Foot, Illustration, Immigration, Labourers, Mississippi, Missouri, Political Cartoon, Senate, Slavery, Thomas Bennett, Uncle Sam

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