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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. 2nd edition.
by CAIRNES, J(ohn) E(lliot)
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New York, Carleton, 1862.Original embossed cloth (spine discoloured and extremities sl. dam.). 171 pp.First edition published the same year in New York. - Thorough analysis of socio-economic backgrounds of slavery in North America. Preface: 'Considering slavery as the true origin of the civil war now existing, (the author) treats of its economic basis, of the organization, tendencies, development, and external policy of slave societies, and of the career and designs of the slave power' (Preface). 'The slave society concept was adumbrated in the late nineteenth century, particularly in The slave power (1862) written by John E. Cairnes, and became common currency among popularization of the Marxist slave mode of production' (Macmillan, Encyclopedia of world slavery, p.826). 'Confederates probably intend to revive the African slave trade, which continued until 1860' (Hogg p.233). - (Library stamp on title-page).Sabin 9856; Work p.365; Hogg 2857; Afro-Americana 1929.
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