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Albert Taylor Bledsoe

During Bledsoe’s 68 years (1809-1877) he graduated from West Point, taught mathematics at several colleges, passed the bar and practiced with Lincoln’s friend, Edward Baker, became a Methodist minister, and served as Assistant Secretary of War for the Confederacy. His 1856 treatise An Essay on Liberty and Slavery defended the Southern position on bondage.

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