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A Fire Bell in the Night

General Map of the United States, by Henry D. Rogers, 1857.

General Map of the United States, by Henry D. Rogers, 1857.

 

General Map of the United States, by Henry D. Rogers, 1857

The "line" that delineates free states from slaveholding states was the one agreed upon in the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

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