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Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
Slavery and the Commerce Power How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
Author: David L. Lightner
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 th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300114706
ISBN-10: 0300114702
Publication Date: 11/16/2006
Pages: 240
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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