The business of slavery and the rise of American capitalism, 1815-1860 /

"Focuses on networks of people, information, conveyances, and other resources and technologies that moved slave-based products from suppliers to buyers and users." (page 3) The book examines the credit and financial systems that grew up around trade in slaves and products made by slaves.

Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Schermerhorn, Calvin, 1975- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press [2015]
Serier:EBSCO Academic Collection
Online adgang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1bh4d2w
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Soul drivers, market makers
  • "The most notorious of the Baltimore Negro-buyers"
  • Sweet dreams and smuggling schemes
  • Bank bonds and bondspersons
  • "The slave-factory of Franklin & Armfield"
  • Chains of violence
  • Machines of empire
  • Conclusion.