Charles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848 collage tree art carriages wheeling past the southwest

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Charles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848 collage tree art carriages wheeling past the southwestCharles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848. A campaign portrait of the grandson and son of presidents, conscripted onto the Van Buren ticket under the banner of Free Soil a party whose single, unblinking demand was that the territories remain unstained by slavery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and