History of the United States I / Unit 11 USH1 1515 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Tallmadge Amendment
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The idea
New York representative James Tallmadge proposed that Missouri enter as a free state, that no enslaved people be admitted after statehood, and that enslaved children born there be freed at twenty-five.
In practice
A gradual emancipation scheme attached to a statehood bill.
Where people slip
Southern politicians rejected it as an attempt to abolish slavery nationally and to violate slaveholders' property rights.
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