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WHERE ALL MEN WERE CREATED EQUAL - James L. Huston The American and British Debate Over Equality, 1776–1920. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017. xiii + 270 pages. $47.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780807167441.

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James L. Huston The American and British Debate Over Equality, 1776–1920. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017. xiii + 270 pages. $47.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780807167441.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2019

J. M. Opal*
Affiliation:
McGill University

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NOTES

1 See, among many, Johnson, Walter, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2013)Google Scholar.

2 Trotter, Alexander, Observations on the Financial Position and Credit of such of the States of the North American Union as have Contracted Public Debts (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839), p. 381Google Scholar lists $3.2 million in American exports “from the sea” (fish and oil) in 1838, against $61.6 million in cotton.

3 Karp, Matthew, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Wilson, David A., Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection (Montreal: University of Toronto Press, 1988), 17Google Scholar.