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Reluctant emancipator : James Sidney Rollins and the politics of slavery and freedom in the border south, 1838-1882
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines the career of James Sidney Rollins, a free-soil slave owning politician and lawyer in Missouri, to garner a better understanding of the politics...
Between the old and the new : Friedrich Gentz, 1764-1832
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This dissertation reviews the life and political impact of Friedrich Gentz, who was born in Breslau, Prussia, in 1764, and died in Vienna, Austria, in 1832. Though remembered today as only a second- (or even third)- tier ...