Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri little rock art Gate of Belen

Gate of Belen

that great Irish reflector through which the Earl coaxed cratered shadows into legible grief

Major General Winfield Scott 1847 — the conqueror of Veracruz rendered at the height of his Mexican campaign

We print this archival document to order at our Pacific Northwest studio on premium canvas stock with archival pigment inks

Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri little rock art Gate of BelenEmancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri the legislative breath by which a border state, long torn between Union loyalty and slaveholding habit, finally set its bondsmen free. The document carries the dry cadence of statute and the seismic weight of a republic dragging itself, clause by clause, toward its own stated creed. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive