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An Age of Compromise and Crises, 1820-60

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American Free Soil almanac for 1849: astronomically and politically calculated for all the states and territories of the Union (Boston, 1848)

The American Free Soil Almanac for 1849 contained the party's platform, antislavery essays, song lyrics, election statistics, and sketches of the lives of its 1848 presidential candidate Martin Van Buren and vice-presidential candidate Charles Francis Adams, grandson of President John Adams and son of President John Quincy Adams. *APA.W582A.1849 – Gift of William Francis Allen, 1851.