Kenny Akers, Tweet - Did you know; under the Missouri Compromise (1820), Texas could not be a slave state if it's borders extended north of 36º 30'. So Texas shortened its lands deliberately north of 36º 30' and gave them to the United States. In doing so, Texas could remain a slave state, and what would later become the southern border of the Oklahoma Panhandle or better known as no man's land.
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