The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism 1815–1860 by Calvin Schermerhorn, ISBN-13: 978-0300192001
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- Publisher: Yale University Press (April 28, 2015)
- Language: English
- 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 0300192002
- ISBN-13: 978-0300192001
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.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Soul Drivers, Market Makers 10
“The most notorious of the Baltimore Negro-buyers” 33
Sweet Dreams and Smuggling Schemes 69
Bank Bonds and Bondspersons 95
“The Slave-Factory of Franklin & Armfield” 124
Chains of Violence 169
Machines of Empire 204
Conclusion 2 4 0
Notes 253
Index 323
Calvin Schermerhorn teaches history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South.
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