Posted: May 15th, 2013

Missouri compromise and the territorial expansion of slavery in the 18th and 19th century.

These dreams awakened me and filled me with terror” Thomas Jefferson wrote during the debates about the Missouri compromise. When historians of 18th Century and 19th Century united states discuss the territorial expansion of slavery as an ideological expansion of a debate about freedom, what do they mean? Discuss using evidence from Roger Wilkins, Jefferson’s Pillow and Michael Holt, The fate of their country.