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[–] Schmeckinger@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The top chunk missing from Texas shows pretty decisively how important that "right" was to them.

[–] pythonoob@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I guess I'm unfamiliar with this story.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 months ago

The Compromise of 1850 said that no state above 36° latitude could be a slave state. At the time Texas extended all the way to modern day Wyoming. In order to remain a slave state they gave up all the land north of that. This is why Oklahoma has a narrow panhandle now.

[–] Schmeckinger@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Slavery was prohibited north of 36°30′ latitude by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. So Texas just gave the land north of that to Oklahoma to keep slavery legal.