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Author Lightner, David L., 1942-

Title Slavery and the commerce power : how the struggle against the interstate slave trade led to the Civil War / David L. Lightner
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary Telling the complex story of the debate and legal battle over federal regulation of the slave trade, this book explores a range of constitutional, social, and political issues that absorbed antebellum America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-219) and index
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Subject Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Interstate commerce -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- General.
Antislavery movements
Interstate commerce
Slave trade
Slavery -- Political aspects
War -- Causes
Binnenwirtschaft
Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
Vorgeschichte
Sklaverei
Abolitionismus
Sklavenhandel
Slavenhandel.
Binnenlandse handel.
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Escravidão -- Estados unidos.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006007377
ISBN 9780300135169
0300135165
1281734934
9781281734938
9786611734930
6611734937
0300114702
9780300114706