Jeffrey L. Pasley - A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume I, Western Slavery, National Impasse

A FIRE BELL IN THE PAST

Publication of this volume made possible with the generous support of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy

Copyright 2021 by The Curators of the University of Missouri
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65211
Printed and bound in the United States of America
All rights reserved. First printing, 2021.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Pasley, Jeffrey L., 1964- editor. | Hammond, John Craig, 1974-editor.

Title: A fire bell in the past : the Missouri Crisis at 200 / edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley, and John Craig Hammond.

Description: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2021-] | Series: Studies in constitutional democracy; 1 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Contents: v. 1. Western slavery, national impasse -

Identifiers: LCCN 2021003501 (print) | LCCN 2021003502 (ebook) | ISBN 9780826222312 (v. 1 ; hardcover) | ISBN 9780826274588 (v. 1 ; ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Missouri compromise. | Missouri compromise.--Historiography. | Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century. | Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories. | United States--Politics and government--1817-1825. | United States--Territorial expansion--History--19th century. | Sectionalism (United States)--History--19th century. | Missouri--Politics and government--To 1865.

Classification: LCC E373 .F74 2021 (print) | LCC E373 (ebook) | DDC 973.5/4--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021003501

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021003502

This paper meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984.

Typeface: Minion

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To John L. Pasley (19362020)engineer, public servant, sometimes star-crossed businessman, and beloved father. His Missouri crises have ended. Hope the better place hes gone to has an ocean.

For Pep Hammondfather, grandfather, union steamfitter.