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- GLC#
- GLC06366.02-View header record
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- April 9, 1847
- Author/Creator
- Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866
- Title
- [General orders no. 101 regarding the trial of a free African American man]
- Place Written
- Vera Cruz, Mexico
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 24.8 cm, Width: 19.9 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Isaac Kirk, referred to as "a free man of color" and "a resident and citizen of the United States," is charged with, convicted of, and sentenced to hang for the rape of Maria Antonias Gallegas, a Mexican woman. Duplicate of GLC00911.02.
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