The American History Podcast, season two, episode three, the Missouri Compromise.

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Hosted by Sean Worswick.

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This is episode three of our crash course, the Missouri Compromise. I hope you're enjoying this so far. Today we're going to delve into an important aspect of American political history during the antebellum period. Of course, the Missouri Compromise.

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In 1819, the Missouri Territory applied for entrance to the United States.

Representative James Talmadge, a Jeffersonian Republican from New York, submitted an amendment to the request for statehood.

Now, that amendment restricted slavery, which drew objections from Southerners who argued the legality of slavery had been settled by the Constitution.

Talmadge obviously opposed slavery and was hoping to bring about the extinction of that institution.

Now, the amendment read in part, quote, and provided that the further introduction

of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, except for the punishment of crimes, whereof the party

shall have been fully convicted, and that all children born within the said state, after the

admission thereof into the union shall be free at the

age of 25 years end quote now just a bit of background on talmadge he might have been a

Jeffersonian Republican but he was an independent minded person and he had a history of being

anti-slavery in 18, he had objected to the

admission of Illinois on the ground that the state constitution did not go far enough in arguing

that the Northwest Ordinances prohibition against slavery would be maintained. The year before that, he helped efforts to speed up the gradual emancipation of the men and women who remained in bondage in his own state.

And it would be correct to say that Talmadge had no idea that his proposal would set off a firestorm,

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