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Author Lightner, David L., 1942-

Title Slavery and the commerce power [electronic resource] : how the struggle against the interstate slave trade led to the Civil War / David L. Lightner.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 228 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-219) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0300114702 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300114706 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300114706

 
    
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