The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America

Authors

Kevin R.C. Gutzman

ISBN

9780807831052

Price

$45.00 hardcover

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Abstract

Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War: The Missouri Controversy

In 1819-21, Congress devoted considerable attention to the controversy over the proposal that Missouri should not be admitted to the Union unless slavery there was consigned to eventual extinction. Robert Pierce Forbes prom....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.10.1.15

Recommended Citation

Gutzman, Kevin R.C. (2008) "The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.10.1.15
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol10/iss1/15