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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on April 9, 2008
Enterprise and Society 2008 9(2):381-383; doi:10.1093/es/khn033
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David L. Lightner. Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 228 pp. ISBN 0-300-11470-2, $ 45.00 (cloth)

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David L. Lightner has written a valuable analysis of the coming of the American Civil War. Working under the assumption that controversies surrounding slavery were the primary causes of the conflict, he offers new interpretive insights about those disputes. In particular, he asserts that the power of the Federal government to regulate commerce was a potential weapon that could have been used to regulate or even abolish the interstate trade in slaves. Observing that most previous scholars have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Gordon B. McKinney

Berea College


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