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Blank the line east of the Mississippi: 22:38, 16 April 2011: 959 × 593 (80 KB) JWB: Remove coloring for states that did not yet exist in 1850. Reduce color difference between slave states that did or did not later stay in the Union. 19:03, 16 February 2011: 959 × 593 (80 KB) Holly Cheng: oops, messed up Kansas: 18:59, 16 February 2011: 959 ...
Map and view of St. Louis, 1848. This is a list of slave traders working in Missouri from settlement until 1865: . Jim Adams, Missouri and New Orleans [1]; Atkinson & Richardson, Tennessee, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Mo. [2]
Base map derived from File:Blank US Map with borders.svg by User:Strafpeloton2. For states and counties exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation, I consulted File:Emancipation Proclamation.PNG; battle lines as of January 1, 1863, are based partly on File:Map of American Civil War in 1862.svg (reflecting battle lines at the end of the year 1862).
There were, nonetheless, some slaves in most free states up to the 1840 census, and the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution, as implemented by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, provided that a slave did not become free by entering a free state and must be returned to their owner. Enforcement of these ...
Felix & Odile Pratt Valle slave quarters, southeast corner of Merchant & Second Streets, Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. The history of slavery in Missouri began in 1720, predating statehood, with the large-scale slavery in the region, when French merchant Philippe François Renault brought about 500 slaves of African descent from Saint-Domingue up the Mississippi River to work in lead mines in ...
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Slave smuggling took advantage of international and tribal boundaries to traffic slaves into the United States from Spanish North American and Caribbean colonies, and across the lands of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee, Seminole, et al., but American-born or naturalized smugglers, Indigenous slave traders, and any American buyers of ...