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

volume 1. Western slavery, national impasse

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: The Historiography of the Missouri Crisis / Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond -- Prologue: Background to the Missouri Crisis, 1789-1819 / Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond -- The Centrality of Slavery: Settlement, Enslavement, and Enslavers in Missouri, 1770-1820 / John Craig Hammond -- The Boon's Lick Land Rush and the Coming of the Missouri Crisis / Robert Lee -- New York Antislavery Politics and the Origins of the Tallmadge Amendment / Sarah L. H. Gronningsater -- Winny volume Whitesides: Litigating Freedom During the Missouri Crisis / Anne Twitty -- Sharing the Founders' Flame: John Jay, Missouri and Memory / David Gellman -- Border Control: Slavery, Diffusion, and State Formation in the Era of the Missouri -- Crisis / Christa Dierksheide -- 'Which is the law of God': The Pressure of Debates and Extreme Rhetoric from the 1760s to the 1820s / Matthew Mason -- The Surprising Politics of the Missouri Compromise: Antislavery Doughfaces, Maine and the Myth of Sectional Balance / Donald J. Ratcliffe -- At War with Equal Rights: The Missouri Crisis in Southern Eyes / John R. Van Atta -- Daniel Raymond, Mathew Carey, The Missouri Crisis, and the Global 1820s / Andrew Shankman -- How John Quincy Adams Shaped the Missouri Crisis and How the Missouri Crisis Shaped John Quincy Adams / David Waldstreicher.

"This book, planned as the first of two volumes, aims to explore the Missouri Crisis and the many reverberations and ramifications thereof. The volumes are offered as part of the University of Missouri and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy's contribution to the state's 2021 bicentennial commemoration"--

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