Museum object · Slavery and Freedom Objects
Newspaper account of David Hoyt's murder
August 23, 1856
Douglas County, Kansas, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A page from the New York Daily Tribune reporting on the violence occuring in the Kansas territory. Highlights have been noted by someone with red pen. Included in the reporting is the death of David Hoyt.
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Catalog reference: 2011.23.3
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