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Surveying America: The Chain-Bearers
19 Sep 2025 01:48 GMT
… Congressional debates on the the Missouri Compromise and the Thirteenth Amendment in … , socially, and politically dependent upon slavery with enslaved people eventually outnumbering …
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This past president started as a slacker at Bowdoin College
16 Sep 2025 01:18 GMT
… Sept. 25, 1820, as the Missouri Compromise settled into place — creating the … of 1854 – which nullified the Missouri Compromise – and his presidency is seen … deal with the expansion of slavery.
Today, although his presidency is …
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Post-‘Roe’ America is Akin to Unworkable Missouri Compromise
28 Jun 2024 22:57 GMT
… thinker.
Consider the subject of slavery, which likewise horrified and paralyzed … on the Missouri Compromise to presumably split the raging differences over slavery. You … America is living in a “Missouri Compromise” paradigm, trying to balance competing …
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Missouri Compromise of 1820: Annotated
26 Mar 2024 12:01 GMT
… ” on the issue of slavery, and the freedom of … volume,” understanding that the Missouri Compromise was at best a postponement … states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories.
Be … contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise …
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The Republicans: A party born to fight slavery in America
01 Nov 2024 06:53 GMT
… passed called the Missouri Compromise. It prohibited the spread of slavery in the … the months that followed, several anti-slavery state conventions were held. Later … role in the abolition of slavery.
From anti-slavery to white supremacy
In …
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'It was a massacre': Inside the bloody roots of the Mizzou-Kansas rivalry
04 Sep 2025 11:11 GMT
… the act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which set … , Charles Sumner, an anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts, argued … , calling out multiple pro-slavery Congressman in the process … , Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery representative from South Carolina, …
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Slavery and Abortion
11 Oct 2024 01:24 GMT
… to electoral politics.
Slavery and abortion. Are … to slavery previously free territory north of the Missouri Compromise line … state matter. Containment of slavery satisfied neither the abolitionists … a constitutional amendment banning slavery.
And Douglas? His …
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Slavery then and abortion now
10 Oct 2024 22:46 GMT
… , if troubling, issue: slavery then and abortion today. … slavery into previously free territory north of the Missouri Compromise … abolitionists. To them, slavery where it already existed … . But simply containing slavery satisfied neither the abolitionists …
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Davie man’s anti-slavery book helped shape ideas in 1857
28 Jun 2024 14:07 GMT
… It.”
The book denounces slavery in no uncertain terms and … in the Upper South, slavery had been dropping for decades … a slave territory under the Missouri Compromise, in the 1860 census, there … , and thought about a post-slavery South, and, more importantly … …
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The Wilmot Proviso and Missouri Compromise Extension
13 Apr 2023 16:08 GMT
… of Mexico, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall … attempted to ram his Missouri Compromise extension solution through Congress … the Oregon Territory without slavery.
Chronically ill and … of Mexico, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall …