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[colorado tanker]

The reference to "our slaves in upper Missouri" is interesting. The heart of the Upper South plantation culture and production of hemp and tobacco was in Central Missouri along the Missouri River, but mostly north of the River, an area known as Little Dixie. They felt their settlements and slaves would be threatened by the existence of a Free State on the same parallel to the West.

There was some discussion a while ago about pro-Union sentiment in the South. In Missouri it was mostly in the south, in the hill country of the Ozarks.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from August 7 (reply #33)

Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era