David L. Lightner Books
Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
"Despite the U.S. 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 cult...
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By David L. Lightner, Nancy Cunard, Dorothea Lynde Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-87) was perhaps the most famous and admired woman in America for much of the nineteenth century. Beginning in the early 1840s, she launched a personal crusade to persuade t...
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