As a key to understanding the meaning of slavery in America, the Missouri controversy of 181921 is probably our most valuable text. The heat of sectional rhetor

"This book, planned as the first of two volumes, aims to explore the Missouri Crisis and the many reverberations and ramifications thereof. The volumes are offe

Understanding slave states and free states is important in understanding the period of time surrounding the Civil War. The Missouri Compromise also played a key

Describes the history of the political battle over statehood for Missouri, slavery in the West, and the future of the United States.