Edward Bates, between 1855 and 1865. Creator: Unknown.

Edward Bates, between 1855 and 1865. Creator: Unknown.

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Edward Bates, between 1855 and 1865. [Slave owner, lawyer and politician: Attorney General. 'While Bates is considered by some modern scholars as "generally unsympathetic to the cause of African American freedom," he emancipated all of his slaves, and paid for his last former slave's passage to Liberia by 1851'].

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