Slavery And the Commerce Power
How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
Lightner, David L.
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BOOK SUMMARY
Despite the United States ban on slave importation in 1808, profitable interstate slave trading continued. The nineteenth centurys great cotton boom required vast human labor to bring new lands under cultivation, and many thousands of slaves were torn fro
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Despite the United States' ban on slave importation in 1808, profitable interstate slave trading continued. The nineteenth century's great cotton boom required vast human labor to bring new lands under cultivation, and many thousands of slaves were torn from their families and sold across state lines in distant markets. Shocked by the cruelty and extent of this practice, abolitionists called upon the federal government to exercise its constitutional authority over interstate commerce and outlaw the interstate selling of slaves. This groundbreaking book is the first to tell the complex story of the decades-long debate and legal battle over federal regulation of the slave trade.
David Lightner explores a wide range of constitutional, social, and political issues that absorbed antebellum America. He revises accepted interpretations of various historical figures, including James Madison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln, and he argues convincingly that southern anxiety over the threat to the interstate slave trade was a key precipitant to the secession of the South and the Civil War.
AUTHOR BIO
David L. Lightner is Professor of history, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta.
BOOK EXCERPTS
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BOOK REVIEWS
"An important book-one that will take a significant place in the scholarly literature on the antislavery movement and the coming of the Civil War."-James M. McPherson, Princeton University
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0300114702
ISBN(13-digit): 9780300114706
Dewey Decimal: 973.7/112
Library of Congress: 2006007377
Book Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 228
Paper Weight (lb): 1.10 lb
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