David L Lightner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1164802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Lightner |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Lightner |
| SIGNATURE | LIGHTNER D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life
The Door to the Slave Bastille
An organized, militant movement against slavery in America began in January 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of his new paper, the Liberator. He would also found the New England (later called the Massachusetts) Anti-Slavery Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society. While historians of radical abolitionism argue that the movement was apolitical until the 1840s, the abolitionists articulated an explicit political pro…
Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
"Despite the U.S. ban on slave importation in 1808, profitable interstate slave trading continued. The nineteenth century's great cotton boom required vast human labor to bring new lands under cultivation, and many thousands of slaves were torn from their families and sold across state lines in distant markets. Shocked by the cruelty and extent of this practice, abolitionists called upon the federal government to exercise its constitutional autho…
Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
Journal Article Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War Get access Lightner David L.. Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii, 228 pp. $45.00 (cloth). J. L. Schermerhorn J. L. Schermerhorn University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Were African American Slaveholders Benevolent or Exploitative? A Quantitative Approach
THE OWNERSHIP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES BY OTHER AFRICAN Americans was surely one of most peculiar features of peculiar institution. Yet, in antebellum South free black people did indeed own enslaved black people. Why that was so has been a matter of dispute. Most historians have emphasized benevolence as motivation for slaveholding by blacks, but others have emphasized exploitation. This paper seeks to contribute to that debate using a quantita…
The Founders and the Interstate Slave Trade
During the antebellum decades of the nineteenth century, opponents of slavery often argued that the federal government possessed the constitutional power outlaw the interstate slave trade. Such prominent politicians as John Jay, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, Salmon P. Chase, and Charles Sumner all asserted at one time or another that possessed the requisite authority. At its founding 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society declared, Congress…
Hard Work: The Making of Labor History , by Melvyn Dubofsky
"Hard Work: The Making of Labor History, by Melvyn Dubofsky." Canadian Journal of History, 37(2), pp. 428–429
Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History
Book Review| July 01 2002 Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History. Simon M. Evans, Sarah Carter and Bill Yeo. David L. Lightner David L. Lightner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2002) 76 (3): 616–617. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.3.616 Cite Icon Cite Share…
And a Time For Hope: Americans in the Great Depression , by James R. McGovern
Managing Madness
Lynn Gamwell and Nancy Tomes. Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. 182. David Gollaher. Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea Dix. New York: The Free Press, 1995. Pp. xi + 538. Gerald N. Grob. The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America's Mentally III. New York: The Free Press, 1994. Pp. xiii + 386. That American mental health policy is a…
Abraham Lincoln and American Values
J. David Greenstone. The Lincoln Persuasion: Remaking American Liberalism. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xxxiii + 312. Mark E. Neely, Jr. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993. Pp. ix + 214. Merrill D. Peterson. Lincoln in American Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. viii + 482. Established scholars have produced these th…
Myths About Lincoln: Peeling the Onion
Waldo W. Braden, ed. Building the Myth: Selected Speeches Memorializing Abraham Lincoln. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. vii + 259 pp. Mario M. Cuomo and Harold Holzer, eds. Lincoln on Democracy. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, 1990. xlvii + 416 pp. Robert W. Johannsen. Lincoln, the South, and Slavery. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991. xiii + 128 pp. James M. McPherson. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American R…
More Time on the Cross: Slavery and the Slave Trade
Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. New York: WAV. Norton & Co., 1989. xviii + 306 pp. Robert William Fogel. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fait of American Slavery. New York: WAV. Norton & Co., 1989. 539 pp. Roger L. Ransom. Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989…
Good and Evil Mixed: Lincoln and His Party in the Civil War Era
Richard H. Abbott. The Republican Party and the South, 1855-1877: The First Southern Strategy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xiv + 303 pp. Don E. Fehrenbacher. Lincoln in Text and Context: Collected Essays. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. x + 364 pp. William E. Gienapp. The Origins of the Republican Party 1852-1856. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xi + 564 pp. Stanley Harrold. Gamaliel Bailey and Antis…
Railroads and the American Economy: The Fogel Thesis in Retrospect
Abolitionism, Women's Rights, Labor Reform and Evangelicalism: The Search for Connections
Marcus Cunliffe. Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery: The Anglo-American Context, 1830-1860. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures No. 22 Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1979.128 +xix pp. Walter M. Merrill, ed. Let the Oppressed Go Free, 1861-1867. Vol. V of The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979. 597 + xxx pp. Lewis Perry and Michael Fellman, eds. Antislavery Reconsidere…
Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad, 1852-1900: The Evolution of an Industrial Environment
Were African American Slaveholders Benevolent or Exploitative? A Quantitative Approach
THE OWNERSHIP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES BY OTHER AFRICAN Americans was surely one of most peculiar features of peculiar institution. Yet, in antebellum South free black people did indeed own enslaved black people. Why that was so has been a matter of dispute. Most historians have emphasized benevolence as motivation for slaveholding by blacks, but others have emphasized exploitation. This paper seeks to contribute to that debate using a quantita…
The Founders and the Interstate Slave Trade
During the antebellum decades of the nineteenth century, opponents of slavery often argued that the federal government possessed the constitutional power outlaw the interstate slave trade. Such prominent politicians as John Jay, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, Salmon P. Chase, and Charles Sumner all asserted at one time or another that possessed the requisite authority. At its founding 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society declared, Congress…
Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad, 1852-1900: The Evolution of an Industrial Environment
Abolitionism, Women's Rights, Labor Reform and Evangelicalism: The Search for Connections
Marcus Cunliffe. Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery: The Anglo-American Context, 1830-1860. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures No. 22 Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1979.128 +xix pp. Walter M. Merrill, ed. Let the Oppressed Go Free, 1861-1867. Vol. V of The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979. 597 + xxx pp. Lewis Perry and Michael Fellman, eds. Antislavery Reconsidere…
Railroads and the American Economy: The Fogel Thesis in Retrospect
Good and Evil Mixed: Lincoln and His Party in the Civil War Era
Richard H. Abbott. The Republican Party and the South, 1855-1877: The First Southern Strategy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xiv + 303 pp. Don E. Fehrenbacher. Lincoln in Text and Context: Collected Essays. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. x + 364 pp. William E. Gienapp. The Origins of the Republican Party 1852-1856. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xi + 564 pp. Stanley Harrold. Gamaliel Bailey and Antis…
More Time on the Cross: Slavery and the Slave Trade
Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. New York: WAV. Norton & Co., 1989. xviii + 306 pp. Robert William Fogel. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fait of American Slavery. New York: WAV. Norton & Co., 1989. 539 pp. Roger L. Ransom. Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989…
Myths About Lincoln: Peeling the Onion
Waldo W. Braden, ed. Building the Myth: Selected Speeches Memorializing Abraham Lincoln. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. vii + 259 pp. Mario M. Cuomo and Harold Holzer, eds. Lincoln on Democracy. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, 1990. xlvii + 416 pp. Robert W. Johannsen. Lincoln, the South, and Slavery. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991. xiii + 128 pp. James M. McPherson. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American R…
Abraham Lincoln and American Values
J. David Greenstone. The Lincoln Persuasion: Remaking American Liberalism. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xxxiii + 312. Mark E. Neely, Jr. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993. Pp. ix + 214. Merrill D. Peterson. Lincoln in American Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. viii + 482. Established scholars have produced these th…
Managing Madness
Lynn Gamwell and Nancy Tomes. Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. 182. David Gollaher. Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea Dix. New York: The Free Press, 1995. Pp. xi + 538. Gerald N. Grob. The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America's Mentally III. New York: The Free Press, 1994. Pp. xiii + 386. That American mental health policy is a…
And a Time For Hope: Americans in the Great Depression , by James R. McGovern
The Founders and the Interstate Slave Trade
During the antebellum decades of the nineteenth century, opponents of slavery often argued that the federal government possessed the constitutional power outlaw the interstate slave trade. Such prominent politicians as John Jay, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, Salmon P. Chase, and Charles Sumner all asserted at one time or another that possessed the requisite authority. At its founding 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society declared, Congress…
Hard Work: The Making of Labor History , by Melvyn Dubofsky
"Hard Work: The Making of Labor History, by Melvyn Dubofsky." Canadian Journal of History, 37(2), pp. 428–429
Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History
Book Review| July 01 2002 Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History. Simon M. Evans, Sarah Carter and Bill Yeo. David L. Lightner David L. Lightner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2002) 76 (3): 616–617. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.3.616 Cite Icon Cite Share…
Were African American Slaveholders Benevolent or Exploitative? A Quantitative Approach
THE OWNERSHIP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES BY OTHER AFRICAN Americans was surely one of most peculiar features of peculiar institution. Yet, in antebellum South free black people did indeed own enslaved black people. Why that was so has been a matter of dispute. Most historians have emphasized benevolence as motivation for slaveholding by blacks, but others have emphasized exploitation. This paper seeks to contribute to that debate using a quantita…
The Door to the Slave Bastille
An organized, militant movement against slavery in America began in January 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of his new paper, the Liberator. He would also found the New England (later called the Massachusetts) Anti-Slavery Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society. While historians of radical abolitionism argue that the movement was apolitical until the 1840s, the abolitionists articulated an explicit political pro…
Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
"Despite the U.S. ban on slave importation in 1808, profitable interstate slave trading continued. The nineteenth century's great cotton boom required vast human labor to bring new lands under cultivation, and many thousands of slaves were torn from their families and sold across state lines in distant markets. Shocked by the cruelty and extent of this practice, abolitionists called upon the federal government to exercise its constitutional autho…
Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War
Journal Article Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War Get access Lightner David L.. Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii, 228 pp. $45.00 (cloth). J. L. Schermerhorn J. L. Schermerhorn University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life
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