1. The Missouri Comprimise
The planned admittance of Missouri to the Union sanctioned its populations to draft a state constitution and Missourians began the second act of the problematic situation with a draft constitution ensuring slavery and excluding free people of color from coming into their state. ... "Fellow citizens," he wailed, "these outrages were committed upon a family of free people in Philadelphia, and on the Sabbath day" (Coffin). ... White Southerners observed the debate itself as a hazard to their strange establishment. ...
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