The American slave coast
Subtitle: a history of the slave-breeding industry
By: Ned and Constance Sublette
Contributors: Sublette, Constance
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 754
ISBN-13: 9781613748206
Subjects: Slave traders; Slave trade; Slaveholders; Slavery; Slaves; Social conditions; Sexual behavior; History
Description: "A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could only be decommissioned by Emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 699-732) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The capitalized womb; title: The Chesapeake and the Lowcountry; title: Silent profit; title: The star-spangled slave trade; title: The slaveocracy; title: The revolution.