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Slavery and the commerce power [electronic resource] : how the struggle against the interstate slave trade led to the Civil War / David L. Lightner.

By: Lightner, David L, 1942-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006Description: xii, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Interstate commerce -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- CausesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.7/112 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-219) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.