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   Slavery and the Commerce Power

   How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War

   Av David L. Lightner

   Inbunden, 2006

   605 kr

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   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 under cultivation, and many thousands of slaves were torn from their families and sold across state …

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   Asylum, Prison, and Poorhouse

   The Writings and Reform Work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois

   Av David L. Lightner

   Häftad, 1999

   363 kr

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   This illustrated collection of annotated newspaper articles and memorials by Dorothea Dix provides a forum for the great mid-nineteenth-century humanitarian and reformer to speak for herself. Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802­–87) was perhaps the most famous and admired woman in America for much of the …