University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository Doctoral Dissertations Student Scholarship Spring 2013 "An ill-judged piece of business": The failure of slave trade suppression in a slaveholding republic Sarah A. Batterson University of New Hampshire, Durham Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation Recommended Citation Batterson, Sarah A., ""An ill-judged piece of business": The failure of slave trade suppression in a slaveholding republic" (2013). Doctoral Dissertations. 715. https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/715 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. “AN ILL-JUDGED PIECE OF BUSINESS”: THE FAILURE OF SLAVE TRADE SUPPRESSION IN A SLAVEHOLDING REPUBLIC BY SARAH A. BATTERSON Bachelor of Arts, Vassar College, 2001 Masters of Arts, Brandeis University, 2005 DISSERTATION Submitted to the University of New Hampshire in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History May, 2013 UMI Number: 3572932 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Di!ss0?t&iori Publishing UMI 3572932 Published by ProQuest LLC 2013.