Here is a New York Times story, Oct. 6, 1854 on Senator Steven A. Douglas' Mississippi Plantation of 160 slaves in his wifes name. He derived the rents and profits of two different Mississippi plantations and pocketed the money.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9403E3DE1238EE3BBC4E53DFB667838F649FDE

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David Upton