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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)
with his public positions, all while being mindful of the economic effect of emancipation would have on slave owners in Missouri. Twice elected to the House of Representatives during the Civil War, Rollins cast one of the deciding votes on the Thirteenth...