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In 1820 the Missouri controversy erupted over the issue of slavery in the newly acquired lands of the Louisiana Purchase. It fell to Jesse Burgess Thomas (1777–1853), a junior U.S. senator from the new state of Illinois, to handle the delicate negotiations that led to the Missouri Compromise. Thomas’s maturity, good judgment, and restraint helped pull the country back from

Title : Dividing the Union: Jesse Burgess Thomas and the Making of the Missouri Compromise
Author : Matthew W. Hall
Language : en
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