Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
Description:
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.
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780300114706
Frequently Asked Questions about Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
The price for the book starts from $33.27 on Amazon and is available from 24 sellers at the moment.
If you’re interested in selling back the Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 4,162,471 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.
The highest price to sell back the Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War book within the last three months was on November 02 and it was $1.96.