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On the recordDecember 4, 1860
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th of April last, requesting information concerning the African slave trade, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.
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Vera Buchanan
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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