I believe the conflict that slavery was becoming worse is the answer. When reading, the author wanted you to understand that the US had tried to fix the problem of slavery using the Missouri Compromise. Although, as you can see, it didn’t seem to work XD. All in all, I just think the author was trying to say that the problem of slavery had gotten worse.
B) Freedom would be the answer. The birth sounds pretty desperate to get out of the cage.
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