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Mom didn't go to school (lemmy.wtf)

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago (5 children)

"It was about States' Rights!"

"Yeah, a State's Right to what, exactly?"

[–] Schmeckinger 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The top chunk missing from Texas shows pretty decisively how important that "right" was to them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I guess I'm unfamiliar with this story.

[–] Schmeckinger 8 points 6 months ago

Slavery was prohibited north of 36°30′ latitude by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. So Texas just gave the land north of that to Oklahoma to keep slavery legal.

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