The Antislavery Controversy in Missouri, 1819-1865
Author: Benjamin Merkel
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 68
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Author: Benjamin Merkel
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 68
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 53
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 872
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John R. Van Atta
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Published: 2015-06-30
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1421416549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“In this engaging work, Van Atta . . . provides an in-depth analysis of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, a seminal event on the road to the Civil War.” —Choice In Wolf by the Ears, John R. Van Atta discusses how the question of slavery surfaced in the divisive fight over Missouri statehood. As Thomas Jefferson wrote at the time, a nation dealing with the politically implacable issue of slavery essentially held the “wolf” by the ears—and could neither let go nor hang on forever. The first organized Louisiana Purchase territory to lie completely west of the Mississippi River and northwest of the Ohio, Missouri carried special significance for both pro- and anti-slavery advocates. Northern congressmen leaped out of their seats to object to the proposed expansion of the slave “empire,” while slave-state politicians voiced outrage at the northerners’ blatant sectional attack. Although the Missouri confrontation ultimately appeared to end amicably with a famous compromise that the wily Kentuckian Henry Clay helped to cobble together, the passions it unleashed proved vicious, widespread, and long lasting. Van Atta deftly explains how the Missouri crisis revealed the power that slavery had already gained over American nation building. He explores the external social, cultural, and economic forces that gave the confrontation such urgency around the country, as well as the beliefs, assumptions, and fears that characterized both sides of the slavery argument. Wolf by the Ears provides students in American history with an ideal introduction to the Missouri crisis while at the same time offering fresh insights for scholars of the early republic. “Van Atta has written the clearest narrative of the Missouri crisis to date.” —Louisiana History
Author: Harrison Anthony Trexler
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Pierce Forbes
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2009-09
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1458721744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a key to understanding the meaning of slavery in America, the Missouri controversy of 1819-21 is probably our most valuable text. The heat of sectional rhetoric during the Missouri debates reached a level never exceeded, and rarely matched, until the secession crisis of 1860. Moreover, nearly all the arguments for and against slavery in America were advanced at this time (with revealing exceptions, as we shall see). The Missouri Compromise is said to have settled the slavery question for a generation; its repeal, in 1854, triggered the final stage of the sectional crisis, prompted the establishment of the Republican Party, and impelled the return to politics of Abraham Lincoln. It merits a heading in every American history textbook. ----Introduction.
Author: Harrison Anthony Trexler
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 276
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John R. McKivigan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780815331056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Robert Pierce Forbes
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 1458721639
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