The business of slavery and the rise of American capitalism, 1815-1860
By: Calvin Schermerhorn
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780300192001
Subjects: Slave-trade; Slave traders; Slaves; Social conditions; History; Slavery; Capitalism
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Soul drivers, market makers; title: "The most notorious of the Baltimore Negro-buyers"; title: Sweet dreams and smuggling schemes; title: Bank bonds and bondspersons; title: "The slave-factory of Franklin & Armfield"; title: Chains of violence; title: Machines of empire; title: Conclusion.