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Description:: This dissertation examines the gradual construction and contested meanings of U.S. slavery’s first western border. According to most historiography, Congress’s Northwest Ordinance of 1787 fixed the meaning of this border at the nation’s inception, constituting the Northwest Territory as the free opposite of slave territories south and west of the...
Keyword:: Northwest Ordinance, Slavery, Illinois, Law and Society, Emancipation,, and Missouri
Subject:: History
Creator:: Jesse Nasta
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/09/2018
Date Modified:: 01/29/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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