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John Elliot Cairnes (1823 1875) was one of the leading economists
of his day, holding professorships at Trinity College Dublin,
University College, Galway, and University College, London. He
gained an international reputation with The Slave Power, first
published in 1862, and enlarged and reissued the following year.
His analysis of the economic and social system of the Confederate
states in America did much to influence British support for the
Union in the United States' Civil War. He argued that the course of
history was influenced most of all by economic causes. Although he
had begun his study of the slave trade on a theoretical basis, the
outbreak of civil war had given it a more immediate and practical
application. His case is very clearly and impartially argued. While
being opposed to slavery on moral grounds, he fairly states the
arguments on both sides, and refutes some of the Confederate
propaganda.
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