A fire bell in the past. Volume II, "The Missouri Question" and its answers : the Missouri Crisis at 200 / edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley, and John Craig Hammond.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pasley, Jeffrey L., 1964- editor.

Hammond, John Craig, 1974- editor.

Series:

Studies in constitutional democracy.

Studies in constitutional democracy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missouri compromise.

Missouri compromise--Historiography.

Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories.

Sectionalism (United States)--History--19th century.

Sectionalism (United States).

United States--Politics and government--1817-1825.

United States.

United States--Territorial expansion--History--19th century.

Missouri--Politics and government--To 1865.

Missouri.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2021]

Summary:

Many new states entered the United States around 200 years ago, but only Missouri almost killed the nation it was trying to join. When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment banning slavery from the prospective new state in February 1819, it set off a two-year political crisis in which growing northern antislavery sentiment confronted the aggressive westward expansion of the peculiar institution by southerners. The Missouri Crisis divided the U.S. into slave and free states for the first time and crystallized many of the arguments and conflicts that would later be settled violently during the Civil War. The episode was, as Thomas Jefferson put it, "a fire bell in the night" that terrified him as the possible "knell of the Union."Drawn from the of participants in two landmark conferences held at the University of Missouri and the City University of New York, those who contributed original essays to this second of two volumes--a group that includes young scholars and foremost authorities in the field--answer the Missouri "Question," in bold fashion, challenging assumptions both old and new in the long historiography by approaching the event on its own terms, rather than as the inevitable sequel of the flawed founding of the republic or a prequel to its near destruction.This second volume of A Fire Bell in the Past features a foreword by Daive Dunkley. Contributors include Dianne Mutti Burke, Christopher Childers, Edward P. Green, Zachary Dowdle, David J. Gary, Peter Kastor, Miriam Liebman, Matthew Mason, Kate Masur, Mike McManus, Richard Newman, and Nicholas Wood.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Contributors

Foreword: A Reckoning with Slavery | D. A. Dunkley

Introduction: The 1821 Project | Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond

Chronology: The Era of the Second Missouri Compromise

Part I: "The Missouri Question" in National Politics

1. "We have gained all that was possible, if not all that was desired": Politics and the Passage of the Missouri Compromise | Michael J. McManus

2. The Missouri Crisis and the Uncontested Reelection of James Monroe | Christopher Childers

3. Diplomat, Republican, Lady: Louisa Catherine Adams and the Missouri Crisis | Miriam Liebman

Part II. Answering the Question in Missouri and across America

4. The Second Missouri Compromise, State Citizenship, and African Americans' Rights in the Antebellum United States | Kate Masur

5. "Clothing and food are nothing compared with liberty": Undoing the Myth of Mild Missouri Slavery | Diane Mutti Burke

6. The Other Fire Bell: African American Politics and the Missouri Compromise before the Civil War | Richard Newman

7. A Geography of Free Soil: The Legacy of the 1820 Compromise, Political Conflict, and the Decline of Slavery in Missouri | Zachary Dowdle

Part III. Legacies of the Missouri Crisis in American Political Culture

8. Doughface: The Origins and Legacy of an Antebellum Political Insult | Nicholas P. Wood

9. "Contrary to the law of nature": The Reconstruction and Memory of Rufus King's Missouri Crisis Speeches | David J. Gary

10. "General declarations are insufficient": The Pressure of Debates and Extreme Rhetoric from the 1760s to the 1820s | Matthew Mason

Part IV. Reframing the Question Continentally

11. The Local Politics of "Indian Affairs": Diplomacy, Ethnic Cleansing, and Federal Power in the Age of Missouri Statehood | Edward P. Green.

12. The Multinational History of Missouri Statehood and the Reimagining of North American Polities | Peter Kastor

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826222497

0826222498

OCLC:

1283857058