The Louisiana purchase and South Carolina's reopening of the slave trade in 1803

Authors

Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2002

ISSN

0275-1275

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Language

en-US

Abstract

Shugerman discusses South Carolina's stunning reversal of slave trading bans in 1803. He argues that the Louisiana Purchase fueled the reversal of the ban and suggests that the state's politicians sacrificed their immediate financial and electoral interests for more distant sectional benefits.

Recommended Citation

Jed H. Shugerman, The Louisiana purchase and South Carolina's reopening of the slave trade in 1803 , in 22 Journal of the Early Republic 263 (2002).
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