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dc.date2021-11-25T13:34:13.000
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-26T11:34:22Z
dc.date.available2021-11-26T11:34:22Z
dc.date.issued1844-01-01T00:00:00-0752:58
dc.identifierctlh/13
dc.identifier.contextkey18456537
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/167
dc.description.abstractHartford?, 1844. 1 sheet (1 page) : illustration (woodcut) ; 48 x 8 cm. Illustration depicts a debtor being taken the to prison by an official and a crying woman is holding on to the official's shoulder. First line of text reads: in 1837, when the democrats were in power in this State, they passed a bill abolishing imprisonment for debt. Printed beneath the illustration is John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Prisoner for Debt." Announces a town hall meeting to reelect Chauncey Fitch Cleveland to pass a bill abolishing imprisonment for debt. http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1553159
dc.subjectDebt
dc.subjectImprisonment for -- Connecticut
dc.titleO.K. OLL for Kleveland, no imprisonment for debt.
dc.source.journaltitleConnecticut Legal History
refterms.dateFOA2021-11-26T11:34:22Z
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ctlh/13
dc.identifier.legacyfulltexthttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=ctlh&unstamped=1


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