Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Slave territory” in chapter 17 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.:
... time the fertile and populous counties of Platte, Buchanan, Andrew, Holt, Nodaway, and Atchison, which contained in 1860 70,505 inhabitants, of whom 6,699 were slaves.
This conversion of Free into Slave territory , in palpable violation of the Missouri Compromise, was effected so dexterously and quietly as to attract little or no public attention.
At the first session of the XXXIId Congress (1851-2) petiti...
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