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required reading for students of American history. For those who are unfamiliar with the conflict, when Missouri petitioned to become a state, there were at the time 22 existing
states, with 11 being pro-slavery and 11 being anti-slavery. Missouri wished to become a pro-slave state, which of course anti-slave advocates feared would disrupt a very delicate political balance.
In the subsequent Missouri Compromise, Missouri would be admitted as a slave state and Maine would be a free state, and a sectional demarcation line would be drawn at
36 degrees with no slavery permitted north of that delineation. This contentious situation was the most formidable challenge the fledgling nation had to face, and is considered to be
by historians, in retrospect, a watershed moment in the history of the United States not simply because of what transpired during the time period, but because of the repercussions the
events had on the future course of American politics and society. However, shockingly, few texts appeared in the years since 1821 that have been entirely devoted to the controversy
that split ideologies into political party and geographical lines. Fortunately, Glover Moore, a professor of history at Mississippi State University righted this historical wrong by compiling his exhaustive research
of the subject into an impressive volume entitled, The Missouri Controversy, 1819-1821. As the no-frills title indicates, this is a serious scholarly text that considers the events leading up
to the controversy, the controversy itself and the heated political debates it inspired and the resulting compromise that ultimately created more problems than it solved. First published in
1953 by the University of Kentucky Press, the massive 11-chapter, 392-page text might appear rather overwhelming at first in terms of detail, but is a thoroughly readable book that can
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