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Expand slavery or limit it? By 1818, the United States was deeply divided about what to do in Missouri, a territory that wanted to be a state. At issue was whether slavery would be legal in the new state. But how did the fight start? And how would the fate of Missouri change the United States?
About the Author
KaaVonia Hinton, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Darden College of Education at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is the author of Angela Johnson: Poetic Prose (2006) and Sharon M. Draper: Embracing Literacy (2009) , and co-author (with Gail K. Dickinson) of Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary Schools (2007) and (with Katherine T. Bucher) of Young Adult Literature:
Exploration, Evaluation, and Appreciation (Prentice Hall, 2009) . Her reviews of young adult and children's literature are published regularly in VOYA and ForeWord Magazine.
