The influence of slavery upon Missouri politics (to include 1860)
Institution: | University of Missouri – Columbia |
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Year: | 1910 |
Record ID: | 1526070 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/14708 |
In order that this discussion of the influence of slavery upon Missouri politics may be the better understood, it willustrations be well to first present such facts relating to the local status of slavery as willustrations explain its importance as a domestic institution in the commonwealth prior to the period in which it was an issue in the politics of the state, i.e. until 1820.