First, Missouri gained admission to the Union as a slave state, with a provision that portions of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36' 30' north latitude would be free. (This limitation was ...

The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827” (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006). Rachel Goldberg, Ph.D., Syracuse University. Associate professor of peace and conflict studies ...

What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the ...