“Why may not our country be enriched by that lucrative traffic?”: The slave trade and the failed politics of federal proscription in the early American Republic (1787-1808)
This article proposes to explore the commercial dimensions of the slave trade suppression in the United States during the early national period. It draws attention to recent scholarship on the Atlantic slave trade and the politics of slavery in the early American republic to show that the slave trad...
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| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2020-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/6037 |