The Antislavery Movement in Missouri, 1819-1865
Author: Benjamin Merkel
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 872
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Author: Benjamin Merkel
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 872
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Evelyn B. Hunt
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harrison Anthony Trexler
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 288
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 276
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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: Benjamin Merkel
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 53
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harriet C. Frazier
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780786409778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue in America, with the scars inflicted running deep. This study examines crimes such as stealing, burglary, arson, rape and murder committed against and by slaves, with most of the author's information coming from handwritten court records and newspapers. These documents show the death penalty rarely applied when a slave killed another slave, but that it always applied when a slave killed a white person. Despite Missouri's grim criminal justice system, the state's best lawyers were called upon to represent slaves in court on serious criminal charges, and federal law applied to all persons, granting slaves in Missouri protection that few other slave states had. By 1860, Missouri's population was only 10 percent slave, the smallest percentage of any slave state in America.
Author: Harriet C. Frazier
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780786418299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the beginning of French rule of Missouri in 1720 through this state's abolition of slavery in 1865, liberty was always the goal of the vast majority of its enslaved people. The presence in eastern Kansas of a host of abolitionists from New England made slaveholding risky business. Many religiously devout persons were imprisoned in Missouri for "slave stealing." Based largely on old newspapers, prison records, pardon papers, and other archival materials, this book is an account of the legal and physical obstacles that slaves faced in their quest for freedom and of the consequences suffered by persons who tried to help them. Attitudes of both slave holders and abolitionists are examined, as is the institution's protection in both the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution. The book discusses the experiences of particular individuals and examines the Underground Railroad on Missouri's borders. Appendices provide details from two Spanish colonial census reports, a list of abolitionist prison inmates with details about their time served, and the percentages of African Americans still in bondage in 16 jurisdictions from 1820 to 1860.
Author: 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.