First, Missouri gained admission to the Union as a slave state, with a provision that portions of the Louisiana Territory ... north of the compromise line and returned to their owners.

Each month, a dozen Louisiana residents get $1,000 in guaranteed ... according to survey data from the ACLU. Slavery and racism casts a long shadow over the history of criminal justice in the ...

Angola inmates are again asking a federal judge to stop forced farm labor during extreme heat, arguing the practice is ...

Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state; and the remaining territory of the Louisiana Purchase, which lay north of the 36-30 parallel, would be closed off to slavery. The extension of ...