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Slavery and the commerce power : how the struggle against the interstate slave trade led to the Civil War David L. Lightner
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 442 .L54 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lightner, David L., 1942-2023.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave trade--United States--History--19th century.
- Slave trade.
- 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.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-219) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP credit line: Salmon Chase Papers (Coll. #121).
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0300114702 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780300114706 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780300114706
- OCLC:
- 64594291
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