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An Analysis of Abraham Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" and Marti.
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The story of emancipation begins in 1820. Years after President Thomas Jefferson's Lousiana Purchase, the state of Missouri wanted to apply for slave statehood . At the time of the purchase, the Union had 11 slave states and 11 free states. Northerners weren't trying to have a new slave state, scared that a new imbalance in the ratio would send the Union in a different direction. In the northeast, newly independent Maine wanted to apply for free statehood, the reaction was the same on the southern side. The "Great Compromiser" Henry Clay proposed that each state be let in, in its respective preference, keeping the balance of 12 and 12. Both parties accepted. More importantly, the two sides agreed on another thing that would physically separate the two. The compromise declared slavery illegal north of the 36∘ 30' parallel west of Missouri.
This compromise would become significant, as the first Northern outrage on an issue such as slavery. More conflicts would come as America expanded. In 1850, President Taylor proposed admitting New Mexico and California as free states. Southerners expressed their protest at a huge Southern convention, in which secession was openly pushed. In comes Clay again, and in Great Compromising' fashion, California was to be let in as free, while New Mexico and Utah's fate would be decided by local vote. The fugitive slave law, where northerners would be rewarded for turning runaway slaves in to authorities, was also implemented. This law is important, as it showed the Northern parties greater concern for the politics of slavery, rather than the act of slavery itself.
By the time Nebraska and Kansas were to be admitted as free states in 1854, Southerners were already fed up, and did not want any more free states in the Union. Nebraska, which was over the Missouri free/slave line, would automatically become eligible as, and only as, a free state. Aware of the Southern displeasure, Stephen Douglas proposed that much...
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