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Slate: The Pro-Union Civil War Board Game That Was the Chutes and Ladders of 1862

Slate: The Pro-Union Civil War Board Game That Was the Chutes and Ladders of 1862

Other January 7, 2015 0

By Rebecca Onion In 1862, a year into the Civil War, the Philadelphia publishing company Charlton & Althrop registered a trademark for this optimistic and bellicose “Game of Secession, or Sketches of the Rebellion.” The

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