Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812

Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812

2013 • 440 pages

This book examines the political slogan "free trade and sailors rights" and traces its sources to eighteenth-century intellectual thought and Americans' previous experience with impressment into the British navy. The book details the diplomatic history surrounding the War of 1812 and provides a brief narrative of the conflict itself. The book also follows the history of the slogan into the Jacksonian period.


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