Identifier: briefhistoryofna01fish (find matches)
Title: A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Fisher, George Park, 1827-1909
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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AVashington 0 lousr. East 546 THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE Slavery; the Missouri Compromise. — In 1820 a sectional strug-gle arose in Congress, on the question of the admission of Mis-souri as a State with a constitution permitting slavery. Theslave trade had been carried on by the States separately beforethe National Constitution was formed. It was abolished byCongress in 1808, the earliest date allowed by the Constitutionfor the power to abolish it to be exercised. In the North,where the slaves were less numerous, laws for gradual emanci-pation were early passed. But the rapid increase of slaves inthe South, the growing demand for cotton, and the stimulusgiven to the production of it by the cotton gin, made the pros-pect of emancipation by legislative action less probable as timeadvanced. The American Colonization Society was formed in1811; and the fallacious hope was entertained by many thatthe negroes might be carried back to the Liberian settlementon the African coast. The extension

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