Explores the little-known friendship between Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen, and how their collaboration helped to keep slavery out of Illinois and the Northwest Territory. Through a collection of related documents spanning over three decades, readers will gain a fascinating insight into the anti-slavery movement and the political landscape of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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