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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC04842.03 |
From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to 1787 |
Title | William Blount to Gen. Assembly of NC regarding negotiations over Miss. Navigation, threats to Union |
Date | 15 December 1787 |
Author | Blount, William (1749-1800) |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | Discusses negotiations over Mississippi navigation, threats to the national Union, finance, convention (for ratifying the Constitution) |
Subjects | US Constitution Ratification Global History and Civics Foreign Affairs Commerce Taxes or Taxation Treaty |
People | Blount, William (1749-1800) |
Place written | Tarborough, North Carolina |
Theme | Government & Politics; Banking & Economics |
Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
Additional Information | Signer of the U.S. Constitution. In the following document, William Blount (1749-1800), a member of the Constitutional Convention who later served as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee, describes the precarious state of the Union in order to convince the North Carolina general assembly of the necessity of ratifying the new Constitution. |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
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