Slavery's Capitalism : : A New History of American Economic Development /

Slavery's Capitalism : : A New History of American Economic Development / / ed. by Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman.

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During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centra...

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MitwirkendeR:
Baptist, Edward E.,
Beckert, Sven,
Berry, Daina Ramey,
Boodry, Kathryn,
Brophy, Alfred L.,
Chambers, Stephen,
Kimball, Eric,
Majewski, John,
Martin, Bonnie,
Rockman, Seth,
Rood, Daniel B.,
Rosenthal, Caitlin,
Rothman, Joshua D.,
Schermerhorn, Calvin,
Shankman, Andrew,
Wilder, Craig Steven,
HerausgeberIn:
Beckert, Sven,
Rockman, Seth,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Early American Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 5 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Plantation Technologies
  • Chapter 1. Toward a Politi cal Economy of Slave Labor
  • Chapter 2. Slavery's Scientific Management
  • Chapter 3. An International Harvest
  • Part II. Slavery and Finance
  • Chapter 4. Neighbor- to- Neighbor Capitalism
  • Chapter 5. The Contours of Cotton Capitalism
  • Chapter 6. "Broad is de Road dat Leads ter Death"
  • Chapter 7. August Belmont and the World the Slaves Made
  • Part III. Networks of Interest and the North
  • Chapter 8. "What have we to do with slavery?"
  • Chapter 9. "No country but their counting- houses"
  • Chapter 10. The Coastwise Slave Trade and a Mercantile Community of Interest
  • Part IV. National Institutions and Natural Boundaries
  • Chapter 11. War and Priests
  • Chapter 12. Capitalism, Slavery, and the New Epoch
  • Chapter 13. The Market, Utility, and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought
  • Chapter 14. Why Did Northerners Oppose the Expansion of Slavery?
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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