Bob Crawford

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602 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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This was him as Secretary of State, while the nation was debating the Missouri, what became the Missouri Compromise.

Will the state of Missouri come into the nation as a free state or a slave state?

It tore the country apart.

Could not get it resolved.

So Adams writes, the only way that's, and this is where he begins to really write about slavery in his diary, is this moment.

And he says, the only way slavery is going to end is through a civil or servile war.

He knew it.

The South will never give up its slaves.

They will never do it.

And so it could only come by war.

The end of slavery could only come by war.

And here we are seeing the end of the Voting Rights Act, right?

So you have the Civil War.

You have 100 years until the Voting Rights Act is passed.

So you really don't have – you have freedom in name only for 100 years after slavery, which is –

It's insane to think about.

And so we've only had the closest thing to equality that we've had since 1865, which hasn't been complete true equality.

And, and so now what happens next?

We don't, I don't think we go back to slavery, but, but you have one portion of the country that,

One group saying we will be dominant.

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