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"Shameful Outrage at Princeton"

October 27, 1836 Antebellum (1820-1861)

Letters from Lewis Tappan, James Carnahan, and Theodore Wright regarding the attack on Wright during the Princeton commencement.

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Format PNG Newspaper Emancipator Place of Publication New York, NY
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