Carte de visite portrait of Henry Taylor Blow, Signed

by Blow by Dred Scott, Matthew Brady, photographer

$950 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Approx. 4x2-1/2 inches. Revenue stamp on verso. Very good. Item #378649 Blow 1817-1875 , a two-term U.S. Representative from Missouri, better known as an abolitionist who assisted Dred Scott. Scott had been enslaved by Blow's parents but sold to Dr. John Emerson, who took him to Illinois and Wisconsin Territory where slavery was prohibited by the Missouri Compromise between 1834 and 1838. Blow encouraged Scott to sue for his freedom and

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