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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.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements.
Interstate commerce -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Interstate commerce.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Political aspects.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Lightner, David L., 1942- Slavery and the commerce power. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006 0300114702 (DLC) 2006007377 (OCoLC)64594291
ISBN 9780300135169 (electronic book)
0300135165 (electronic book)
1281734934
9781281734938
0300114702 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780300114706 (cloth ; alkaline paper)