James Tallmadge offered an amendment that forbade further introduction of slaves into Missouri in 1819. The US Senate refused to concur with the amendment. The House passed a bill allowing Missouri into the union as a slave state in 1820. In the same year, the Missouri Compromise passed in the US Congress.
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Abraham Lincoln was raised by his father who was a strict Baptist and did not believe in slavery. His views and the encounters Lincoln had with slaves themselves influenced his views on slavery.
the north's views on slavery were ngative and they wanted it abolished. that is why slaves went to the north when they ran away.
They tried to force their views on the South. This did not help because it made those from the South very indignant and less likely to compromise.
That freedom is a human right.
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