Unknown [Copy of a letter to President Abraham Lincoln regarding colonization of the Isthmus of Chiriqui]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03619.01.14 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: circa 1863 Pagination: 2 p. ; 31.8 x 20.5 cm. Order a Copy
An unknown author informs Lincoln of the problems of colonizing Africans and African Americans on the Isthmus of Chiriqui (in what is now Panama). States that colonization alone will not solve the racial prejudices existing both in the United States and Chiriqui. One edge of this document appears to be burned, obscuring text. Contains a pencil sketch and a poem at the bottom of the second page written in a different hand than that of the author.
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