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.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press
[2015]
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| Series: | EBSCO Academic Collection
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1bh4d2w |
Table of Contents:
- 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.