The Slave Power: Its Character, Career and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest (Southern Classics)
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John E. Cairnes (Author) John G. Sproat (Contributor) Mark M. Smith (Contributor) Mark M. Smith (Professor of History University of South Carolina USA) (Contributor)
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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
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- Contributor: John E. Cairnes
- Imprint: University of South Carolina Press
- ISBN13: 9781570035227
- Number of Pages: 480
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Release Date: 2003-12-31
- Series: Southern Classics
- Binding: Paperback / softback
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