Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: caruthersville mo<br/>
Date: Nov 14, 2003 @ 04:41<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1155530096">The plantation owner in question was one John Hardeman Walker of Little Prairie<br/>
(now Caruthersville).  For the whole story, see<br/>
www.dnr.state.mo.us/magazine/1999-00_wint/one-last-word.htm .<br/>
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Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA<br/>
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Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: caruthersville mo<br/>
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&gt; Missouri was admitted to the Union as part of the Compromise of 1820,<br/>
&gt; which established its southern boundary, and the extension of that<br/>
&gt; boundary, as the line between slave and free states. Someone who<br/>
&gt; owned enough land to influence the drawing of Missouri&#39;s boundaries<br/>
&gt; probably owned slaves as well. Maybe he was gambling that MO would<br/>
&gt; stay in the Union if slave states ever did secede.<br/>
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