Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Slavery abolished in Missouri

Military and political acts abolishing slavery in Missouri long preceded Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the subsequent 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The 1850s saw John Brown in Kansas, the Bloody Kansas-Missouri Border War, and invading Jayhawkers.