The American Heritage History of the Making of the NationAmerican Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1968 - United States - 416 pages |
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Page 144
... slavery . Southerners were even will- ing to argue that the clause of the Ordinance of 1787 prohibiting slavery in the Northwest was no longer binding . Some went so far as to use the Bible to justify their peculiar institution ...
... slavery . Southerners were even will- ing to argue that the clause of the Ordinance of 1787 prohibiting slavery in the Northwest was no longer binding . Some went so far as to use the Bible to justify their peculiar institution ...
Page 355
Francis Russell. must be restricted to those believing in slavery , that anyone who asserted slavery did not legally exist in the territory would be subject to a minimum of two years ' hard labor , that there would be a ten - year ...
Francis Russell. must be restricted to those believing in slavery , that anyone who asserted slavery did not legally exist in the territory would be subject to a minimum of two years ' hard labor , that there would be a ten - year ...
Page 384
... slavery - with two hundred slaves already in the territory - as an ac- complished fact . One group wanted to adopt a ... slavery " or " without slavery . " If the restricted voters chose slavery , then Kansas would be admitted as a slave ...
... slavery - with two hundred slaves already in the territory - as an ac- complished fact . One group wanted to adopt a ... slavery " or " without slavery . " If the restricted voters chose slavery , then Kansas would be admitted as a slave ...
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