Assertion: region | /r/HasProperty | shaped by relative absence of slavery
Facets:
value: except for missouri
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The region was shaped by the relative absence of slavery (except for Missouri), pioneer settlement, education in one-room free public schools, democratic notions brought by American Revolutionary War veterans, Protestant faiths and experimentation, and agricultural wealth transported on the Ohio River riverboats, flatboats, canal boats, and railroads.[citation needed]