Description

Book Synopsis
Drawn from the of participants in two landmark conferences, those who contributed original essays to this second of two volumes answer the Missouri ‘Question’, in bold fashion, challenging assumptions both old and new in the long historiography by approaching the event on its own terms.

Table of Contents
  • CONTRIBUTORS xi
  • FOREWORD
  • A Reckoning with Slavery xv
  • D. A. Dunkley
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The 1821 Project 3
  • Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • The Era of the Second Missouri Compromise 31
  • PART I: “THE MISSOURI QUESTION" IN NATIONAL POLITICS
  • 1. “We have gained all that was possible, if not all that was desired”:
  • Politics and the Passage of the Missouri Compromise 37
  • Michael J. McManus
  • 2. The Missouri Crisis and the Uncontested
  • Reelection of James Monroe 71
  • Christopher Childers
  • 3. Diplomat, Republican, Lady:
  • Louisa Catherine Adams and the Missouri Crisis 99
  • Miriam Liebman
  • PART II. ANSWERING THE QUESTION IN MISSOURI AND
  • ACROSS AMERICA
  • 4. The Second Missouri Compromise, State Citizenship, and
  • African Americans’ Rights in the Antebellum United States 129
  • Kate Masur
  • 5. “Clothing and food are nothing compared with liberty”:
  • Undoing the Myth of Mild Missouri Slavery 163
  • Diane Mutti Burke
  • 6. The Other Fire Bell: African American Politics and the
  • Missouri Compromise before the Civil War 197
  • Richard Newman
  • 7. A Geography of Free Soil: The Legacy of the 1820 Compromise,
  • Political Conflict, and the Decline of Slavery in Missouri 229
  • Zachary Dowdle
  • PART III. LEGACIES OF THE MISSOURI CRISIS IN AMERICAN
  • POLITICAL CULTURE
  • 8. Doughface: The Origins and Legacy of an
  • Antebellum Political Insult 259
  • Nicholas P. Wood
  • 9. “Contrary to the law of nature”: The Reconstruction and
  • Memory of Rufus King’s Missouri Crisis Speeches 275
  • David J. Gary
  • 10. “General declarations are insufficient”: The Pressure of
  • Debates and Extreme Rhetoric from the 1760s to the 1820s 301
  • Matthew Mason
  • PART IV. REFRAMING THE QUESTION CONTINENTALLY
  • 11. The Local Politics of “Indian Affairs”: Diplomacy, Ethnic
  • Cleansing, and Federal Power in the Age of Missouri Statehood 325
  • Edward P. Green
  • 12. The Multinational History of Missouri Statehood and the
  • Reimagining of North American Polities 357
  • Peter Kastor
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENT 385
  • INDEX 389

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    Publisher: University of Missouri Press
    Publication Date: 12/31/2021 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780826222497, 978-0826222497
    ISBN10: 0826222498
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Drawn from the of participants in two landmark conferences, those who contributed original essays to this second of two volumes answer the Missouri ‘Question’, in bold fashion, challenging assumptions both old and new in the long historiography by approaching the event on its own terms.

    Table of Contents
    • CONTRIBUTORS xi
    • FOREWORD
    • A Reckoning with Slavery xv
    • D. A. Dunkley
    • INTRODUCTION
    • The 1821 Project 3
    • Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond
    • CHRONOLOGY
    • The Era of the Second Missouri Compromise 31
    • PART I: “THE MISSOURI QUESTION" IN NATIONAL POLITICS
    • 1. “We have gained all that was possible, if not all that was desired”:
    • Politics and the Passage of the Missouri Compromise 37
    • Michael J. McManus
    • 2. The Missouri Crisis and the Uncontested
    • Reelection of James Monroe 71
    • Christopher Childers
    • 3. Diplomat, Republican, Lady:
    • Louisa Catherine Adams and the Missouri Crisis 99
    • Miriam Liebman
    • PART II. ANSWERING THE QUESTION IN MISSOURI AND
    • ACROSS AMERICA
    • 4. The Second Missouri Compromise, State Citizenship, and
    • African Americans’ Rights in the Antebellum United States 129
    • Kate Masur
    • 5. “Clothing and food are nothing compared with liberty”:
    • Undoing the Myth of Mild Missouri Slavery 163
    • Diane Mutti Burke
    • 6. The Other Fire Bell: African American Politics and the
    • Missouri Compromise before the Civil War 197
    • Richard Newman
    • 7. A Geography of Free Soil: The Legacy of the 1820 Compromise,
    • Political Conflict, and the Decline of Slavery in Missouri 229
    • Zachary Dowdle
    • PART III. LEGACIES OF THE MISSOURI CRISIS IN AMERICAN
    • POLITICAL CULTURE
    • 8. Doughface: The Origins and Legacy of an
    • Antebellum Political Insult 259
    • Nicholas P. Wood
    • 9. “Contrary to the law of nature”: The Reconstruction and
    • Memory of Rufus King’s Missouri Crisis Speeches 275
    • David J. Gary
    • 10. “General declarations are insufficient”: The Pressure of
    • Debates and Extreme Rhetoric from the 1760s to the 1820s 301
    • Matthew Mason
    • PART IV. REFRAMING THE QUESTION CONTINENTALLY
    • 11. The Local Politics of “Indian Affairs”: Diplomacy, Ethnic
    • Cleansing, and Federal Power in the Age of Missouri Statehood 325
    • Edward P. Green
    • 12. The Multinational History of Missouri Statehood and the
    • Reimagining of North American Polities 357
    • Peter Kastor
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENT 385
    • INDEX 389

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