Title: The business of slavery and the rise of American capitalism, 1815-1860
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.
Subjects: Slave-trade, Slave traders, Slaves, Social conditions, History, Slavery, Capitalism, Slave trade, Slaves, united states, social conditions, Slavery, united states, Economic aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century