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A fire bell in the past : the Missouri Crisis at 200. Volume 1, Western slavery, national impasse / edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley, and John Craig Hammond.

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Book
Contributor:
Pasley, Jeffrey L., 1964- editor.
Hammond, John Craig, 1974- editor.
ProQuest ebook central.
Sylvia W. Kauders Fund.
Series:
Studies in constitutional democracy
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Missouri compromise.
Missouri compromise--Historiography.
Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.
Slavery.
Slavery--Political aspects.
Territorial expansion.
History.
Sectionalism (United States).
Historiography.
United States.
Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories.
Slavery--Extension to the territories.
Sectionalism (United States)--History--19th century.
United States--Politics and government--1817-1825.
Politics and government.
Missouri--Politics and government--To 1865.
Missouri.
United States--Territorial expansion--History--19th century.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiii, 414 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Place of Publication:
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2021]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction: The Historiography of the Missouri Crisis / Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond
Prologue: Background to the Missouri Crisis, 1789-1819 / Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond
The Centrality of Slavery: Settlement, Enslavement, and Enslavers in Missouri, 1770-1820 / John Craig Hammond
The Boon's Lick Land Rush and the Coming of the Missouri Crisis / Robert Lee
New York Antislavery Politics and the Origins of the Tallmadge Amendment / Sarah L. H. Gronningsater
Winny v. Whitesides: Litigating Freedom During the Missouri Crisis / Anne Twitty
Sharing the Founders' Flame: John Jay, Missouri and Memory / David Gellman
Border Control: Slavery, Diffusion, and State Formation in the Era of the Missouri
Crisis / Christa Dierksheide
'Which is the law of God': The Pressure of Debates and Extreme Rhetoric from the 1760s to the 1820s / Matthew Mason
The Surprising Politics of the Missouri Compromise: Antislavery Doughfaces, Maine and the Myth of Sectional Balance / Donald J. Ratcliffe
At War with Equal Rights: The Missouri Crisis in Southern Eyes / John R. Van Atta
Daniel Raymond, Mathew Carey, The Missouri Crisis, and the Global 1820s / Andrew Shankman
How John Quincy Adams Shaped the Missouri Crisis and How the Missouri Crisis Shaped John Quincy Adams / David Waldstreicher.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 27, 2021).
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sylvia W. Kauders Fund.
Other Format:
Print version: Pasley, Jeffrey L. A Fire Bell in the Past
ISBN:
9780826274588
0826274587
Publisher Number:
99989049131
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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