Signed Document

by Blanche K. Bruce

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Signed

Unbound. Partially printed document Signed B.K. Bruce as Recorder of Public Deeds for the District of Columbia. 2pp. Folio. Bruce was the second African-American to serve in the United States Senate after Hiram T. Revels and was the first formerly enslaved person, and the first African-American to serve a full term in the Senate as well as the last for 85 years until the election of Edward Brooke of Massachusetts in 1966 . After his release from slavery, he

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