Whittier The Kanzas [sic] Emigrants
[Boston, July, 1854]

See Currier pp. 75-76. 1 page, 29.2 x 18.3 cm., advertisement on verso, decorative figures of an eagle and a banner. First separate printing, with four lines of music. This poem, like others written by Whittier at this time, reflects the country's concern with the civil strife occurring in the Kansas-Nebraska territories as they struggled to determine whether they would become slave or free states. BAL 21785.

JGW 156

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