Mouton, Senator From Louisiana, 1849 Kalamazoo_poster The Gentlemans Secret Vice Patent

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Mouton, Senator From Louisiana, 1849 Kalamazoo_poster The Gentlemans Secret Vice PatentMouton, Senator From Louisiana, 1849 a Senate portrait of Alexander Mouton at the close of his term, rendered in the formal vocabulary of the antebellum engraver, when Louisiana's voice in Washington carried the weight of sugar, slavery, and the restless arithmetic of expansion. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the