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The Channel itself seems to recoil

a decade after Appomattox

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here flanked by Frances and the children whose births and christenings the nation followed with unseemly appetite

Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri Frame Style:Verdigris Frame reached back for the founder'sEmancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri the legislative breath by which a border state, long torn between Union loyalty and slaveholding habit, finally set its bondsmen free. The document carries the dry cadence of statute and the seismic weight of a republic dragging itself, clause by clause, toward its own stated creed. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive