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The ability to make the purchase wasn't in the Constitution but the deal needed to be completed quickly.
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips is the historian who argued in the 1910s that slavery was a generally benign institution where slaveholders cared for happy slaves.
He is the first historian, his works of South and Southern slavery attracted the attention and creates controversy of some historians. Today, he is remembered as a conservative, proslavery interpreter of slavery and slaves.
Washington died on December 14, 1799....
I would have voted for Stephen a. Douglas. Although he wasen't popular he was in favor of giving indians their rights. That is the main reason noone liked him because he was mre into civil rights.