Letter To The Hon Harrison Gray Otis A Member Of The Senate Of Massachusetts On The Present State Of

by American Imprint Embargo Act Of 1807

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

New-Haven: From Sidney's Press, 1808. Octavo, pp. 1-3 4-32, disbound. One of a dozen or more editions printed in New England and elsewhere. The Embargo Act of 1807 was an attempt by President Thomas Jefferson and the U.S. Congress to punish Britain and France for interfering with American trade during the Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815 . The embargo was unpopular and a costly failure. It hurt the American economy far more than the British or French, and

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