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Article: Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
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- Business History Review
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- July 1, 2008
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Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War. By David L. Lightner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii -I- 228 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-300-11470-2.
Reviewed by Michael S. Green
Anyone who wants to start a brawl at a meeting of American histori though, as Abraham Lincoln said in his Second Inaugural Address, slavery was "somehow, the cause of the war." That "somehow" has inspired ample debate about what Lincoln meant and what part slavery played in the arrival of the war.
The latest, most thought-provoking contribution to this debate is David Lightner's Slavery and the Commerce Power. Any ...