Word: southernmost
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first lecture Mr. Brown will review briefly the history of the southernmost parts of the Union up to the time of the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and will discuss the civilization of the cotton states under the slavery regime. Particular attention will be given to the topics discussed and the reasoning employed in such books as Cairnes's "Slave Power" and Von Holst's "Constitutional History." It will be the lecturer's aim to make plain the effects of slavery and the plantation system on the people of the cotton states and the causes which gave these states the hege...