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Re: eventual phasing out of slavery
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In a message dated 2/5/2002 3:39:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> And I don't necessarily mean a historian postulating after the fact. It
> would be more interesting and reliable to see the takes of political
> thinkers and lawmakers at the time before the war.

David - See the available primary source materials in the state legislatures,
Congress, and newpapers surrounding the debates over the Missouri compromise.
If my memory serves me at all any longer, I seem to remeber this argument
being addressed in that context - though certainly not in that context alone.

Bill Russell

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