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First published 2022 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Brady, Steven, 1967– author.

Title: Chained to history: slavery and US foreign relations to 1865 / Steven J. Brady.

Description: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021011500 (print) | LCCN 2021011501 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501761058 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501761607 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501761591 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Slavery—Political aspects—United States—History. | Slavery—Government policy— United States—History. | United States—Foreign relations—1783–1865. | United States—Politics and government—1783–1865.

Classification: LCC E183.7.B6925 2022 (print) | LCC E183.7 (ebook) | DDC 306.3/620973—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021011500

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021011501

Cover images: Antislavery medallion design attributed to Josiah Wedgwood, 1787, for the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade; USS Constitution v. HMS Java depicted in action during the War of 1812. Painting, oil on canvas, by Charles Robert Patterson. Courtesy of Navy Art Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command.