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The Slave Power - Its Character, Career and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest (Paperback)
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The Slave Power - Its Character, Career and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest (Paperback)
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An early assessment of the contest between an economically defunct
and politically aggressive Southern slave power and a liberal,
free-wage-labor North The Slave Power, John E. Cairnes's seminal
work on slavery, was widely acclaimed upon publication in 1862 as a
brilliant attempt both to explain the essential cause of the
American Civil War and to shape European policy concerning the
struggle. It remains among the most important works on the
political economy of Southern slavery. When Cairnes--one of the
nineteenth century's preeminent classical liberal
economists--characterized Southern slavery as inefficient and
backward, his opinions carried enormous weight, earning him
applause in the North and castigation in the slave- holding South.
Casting the Civil War as a contest between an economically defunct
and politically aggressive Southern slave power and a liberal,
capitalist, free-wage-labor North, Cairnes offered an
interpretation of the origins of the Civil War that has remained as
compelling and controversial as it was when first published. Mark
M. Smith's new introduction to the work places The Slave Power in
historical context by explaining the intellectual milieu in which
the book was written (including a treatment of classical liberal
economic thought in Great Britain), the book's friendly reception
in Union circles, and its rejection by war-torn Confederates. Smith
also traces the book's reception by successive generations of
historians of the slave South.
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