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- GLC#
- GLC05987.14-View header record
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- 29 October 1864
- Author/Creator
- Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866
- Title
- To the planters and slave-owners of Louisiana.
- Place Written
- Shreveport, Louisiana
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 17.7 cm, Width: 22.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Allen, Governor of Louisiana, implores slave owners to loan their slaves to construct fortifications on the Red River. Promises, "Your negroes will be well treated and well fed. They will be required to labor but sixty days, at the expiration of which time they will be dismissed and returned to their homes... Unless the negroes are promptly sent forward, they will be impressed- the country must be defended."
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