Abolitionist politics and the coming of the Civil War /
Before the Civil War, slaveholders made themselves into the most powerful, most deeply rooted, and best organized private interest group within the United States Not only did slavery represent the national economy's second largest capital investment, exceeded only by investment in real estate,...
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2008]
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