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  3. The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 September 2011
      09 December 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511783937
      9781108024334
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511783937
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 328 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, African History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, African History
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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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