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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC07083 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | Authority to affix seal to additional article to slave trade treaty with Britain |
| Date | 5 March 1863 |
| Author | Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) |
| Document Type | Government document; Legal document |
| Content Description | Partially printed document. Lincoln signs an official State Department warrant ordering the Secretary of State to affix the Great Seal of the United States to "my ratification of the Additional Article to the slave trade treaty between the United States and Great Britain, of the 7th April 1862." Written in a secretarial hand. |
| Subjects | President Civil War Global History and Civics Foreign Affairs Government and Civics Diplomacy Treaty Slavery Slave Trade African American History |
| People | Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | The American Civil War; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Foreign Affairs; The Presidency; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
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