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A map, titled “Historical Geography” and created by John F. Smith (1888), that uses the images of two highly stylized trees superimposed onto a map of the United States to depict the spread and triumph of liberty (in the North) over slavery (in the South) from the founding of the United States through the Civil War.

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Philipp Clüver

German geographer