The Northwest Ordinance: Constitutional Politics and the Theft of Native Land

by RobertAlexander (Author), Robert Alexander (Author)

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  2017

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  The western lands acquired from by the US from Great Britain after the Revolutionary War were divided into slave and free states, a compromise which precipitated the US Civil War. Drawing on contemporary letters and documents, this detailed analysis re-examines the Northwest Ordinance and how Congress silently permitted the South's peculiar institution to move westward.