It also depicted a mental line over the rest of the Louisiana Purchase regions at Missouri's southern border, controlling slavery north of that line but tolerating it below. ... Although finishing in compromises, the debates directed shock through American governments. ... Set slaveholders' obsession for state dominance, Representative Daniel Pope Cook of Illinois disbelieved whether they would upkeep the prohibition of slavery north of the recommended Missouri Compromise line. ...

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