Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War

by 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300114702
• ISBN13: 9780300114706
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"