The slave power : its character, career, and probable designs : being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the American contest

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The slave power : its character, career, and probable designs : being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the American contest

John E. Cairnes ; new introduction by Mark M. Smith

(Southern classics series)

University of South Carolina Press, 2003

  • : pbk

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"Published in cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies and the South Caroliniana Society of the University of South Carolina"

"First cloth edition published by Parker, Son and Bourn, 1862; enlarged edition published by Macmillan, 1873"--T.p. verso

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John E. Cairnes's seminal work on slavery was widely acclaimed upon its publication in 1862 as a brilliant attempt both to explain the essential cause of the American Civil War and to shape European policy concerning the struggle.

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