Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: A Reckoning with Slavery / D.A. Dunkley
  • Introduction: The 1821 Project / Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond
  • Chronology: The Era of the Second Missouri Compromise ; Part I: "The Missouri Question" in National Politics
  • 1. "We have gained all that was possible, if not all that was desired": Politics and the Passage of the Missouri Compromise / Michael J. McManus
  • 2. The Missouri Crisis and the Uncontested Reelection of James Monroe / Christopher Childers
  • 3. Diplomat, Republican, Lady: Louisa Catherine Adams and the Missouri Crisis / Miriam Liebman ; Part II. Answering the Question in Missouri and across America
  • 4. The Second Missouri Compromise, State Citizenship, and African Americans' Rights in the Antebellum United States / Kate Masur
  • 5. "Clothing and food are nothing compared with liberty": Undoing the Myth of Mild Missouri Slavery / Diane Mutti Burke
  • 6. The Other Fire Bell: African American Politics and the Missouri Compromise before the Civil War / Richard Newman
  • 7. A Geography of Free Soil: The Legacy of the 1820 Compromise, Political Conflict, and the Decline of Slavery in Missouri / Zachary Dowdle ; Part III. Legacies of the Missouri Crisis in American Political Culture
  • 8. Doughface: The Origins and Legacy of an Antebellum Political Insult / Nicholas P. Wood
  • 9. "Contrary to the law of nature": The Reconstruction and Memory of Rufus King's Missouri Crisis Speeches / David J. Gary
  • 10. "General declarations are insufficient": The Pressure of Debates and Extreme Rhetoric from the 1760s to the 1820s / Matthew Mason ; Part IV. Reframing the Question Continentally
  • 11. The Local Politics of "Indian Affairs": Diplomacy, Ethnic Cleansing, and Federal Power in the Age of Missouri Statehood / Edward P. Green
  • 12. The Multinational History of Missouri Statehood and the Reimagining of North American Polities / Peter Kastor