The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign. Why it Exists, and How it May be Extinguished.
Philadelphia: Hart, Late Carey & Hart, 1853. Item #1083 8vo. [3], 4-426 pp., erratum. Later ownership stamp “Ex Libris Wilson H. Kimnach” on front flyleaf. Later three-quarter morocco binding with gray cloth covered boards. Spine with raised bands and gilt stamping, top edge gilt. First edition. Henry Charles Carey (1793- 1878) was the leading American economist of the nineteenth century and an advocate for the American School of Capitalism. He wrote the economic platform on which Abraham Lincoln ran and was his chief economic advisor when he assumed the office. He begins his study of slavery with a presentation on its history in Great Britain and the United States and focuses in the fourth chapter on the emancipation of slaves in Great Britain in the 1830’s. Using this example and documenting the significant growth of the British economy after emancipation, Carey offers a plan for the United States that equates freedom of labor with economic growth. In doing so he focuses on tariffs, sound money, and the development of a national infrastructure. He continues his book with a look at slavery, in all its manifestations in Europe, especially in Germany and Russia, and asks and then answers the question, how can this system be replaced. Blockson 10000. LC/HSP 2025. Work p. 289. Item #67381, JT/DSC
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