The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860

Business & Finance, Economics, Economic History, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century
Cover of the book The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860 by Prof. Jack  Lawrence Schermerhorn, Yale University Press
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Author: Prof. Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn ISBN: 9780300213898
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: April 28, 2015
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Prof. Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
ISBN: 9780300213898
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: April 28, 2015
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English
Calvin Schermerhorn’s provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demonstrate how slavery was a national business supported by far-flung monetary and credit systems reaching across the Atlantic Ocean. The author details the anatomy of slave supply chains and the chains of credit and commodities that intersected with them in virtually every corner of the pre–Civil War United States, and explores how an institution that destroyed lives and families contributed greatly to the growth of the expanding republic’s capitalist economy.
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Calvin Schermerhorn’s provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demonstrate how slavery was a national business supported by far-flung monetary and credit systems reaching across the Atlantic Ocean. The author details the anatomy of slave supply chains and the chains of credit and commodities that intersected with them in virtually every corner of the pre–Civil War United States, and explores how an institution that destroyed lives and families contributed greatly to the growth of the expanding republic’s capitalist economy.

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