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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, 228 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11470-6.)
David L. Lightner has spent almost two decades researching and writing about the domestic slave trade. His new book extends the scope of his previous scholarship by arguing that "southern anxiety over the threat to the interstate slave trade was an important element in precipitating the secession crisis and Civil War" (p. xi). That essential premise is correct even if the book's subtitle promises more than it can deliver. . . .
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