Slavery and the commerce power [electronic resource] : how the struggle against the interstate slave trade led to the Civil War / David L. Lightner.
Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.Description: xii, 228 p. : illISBN:- 0300114702 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780300114706
- 9780300114706 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Interstate commerce -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
- 973.7/112 22
- E442 .L54 2006eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-219) and index.
A Continual Torment -- This Blind Mysterious Form of Words -- Are They Not the Lord's Enemies? -- Different Opinions at Different Times -- The Door to the Slave Bastille -- Little Will Remain to Be Done Except to Sing Te Deum -- Great and Terrible Realities -- The Friction and Abrasion of War.
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