… Maine’s statehood (just as anti-slavery Congressmen threatened to block statehood … both sides agreed to the Missouri Compromise: Maine would enter the Union … they wanted, the Missouri Compromise merely postponed the battle over slavery. Subsequent compromises …

… the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What … Missouri Compromise line and threatened to open the institution of slavery … the Republican Party, an anti-slavery party. “That would bring … to the institution of slavery. Runaway slaves. Notices …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… , 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 …

… ” 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 …

… Ide. Andrews was an anti-slavery member of the Whig … the Missouri Compromise provision forbidding the expansion of slavery in … that opposed expansion of slavery into northern territories not … L. Grover, an anti-slavery Methodist Episcopal elder who preached …

… happy. History accurately affirms that slavery was an economic windfall for … free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby … United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free …

… 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 … …