Slavery and secession in America
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Slavery and secession in America
（History of American thought, . The political economy of slavery / introduced by David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart ; v. 3）
Thoemmes Press, 2004
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Slavery and secession in America, historical and economical
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Sampson Low, [1861]
Includes bibliographical references
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Description
The African-American slave trade was widely discussed in print by abolitionists (and supporters), but the arguments were often purely moral in nature. A few writers, however, attempted to bolster the moral argument against slavery and the slave trade with a pragmatic one, namely that slavery also weakened the American economy. These authors included the abolitionist Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, the Irish economist John Elliott Cairnes and the American economists Henry Carey and Thomas Ellison. This set collects their major works on the subject, the leading texts on the political economy of slavery during the 19th century debate before and during the American Civil War. The thrust of the arguments, that slavery was actually weakening the economy of the American South, is very interesting in the light of the South's industrial failure during the Civil War, and this should be of interest to historians.
Table of Contents
Volume 1 [599 pp] Thomas Fowell Buxton, "The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy" (1839). Volume 2 [426 pp] Henry C. Carey, "The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign - Why it Exists and How it may be Extinguished" (1853). Volume 3 [387 pp] Thomas Ellison, "Slavery and Secession in America" (1861). Volume 4 [455 pp] John Elliott Cairnes, "The Slave Power: Its Character, Career and Probable Designs" (1863).
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