| Description |
viii, 406 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Early American studies |
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Early American studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-384) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Slavery's capitalism / Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman -- Part 1. Plantation technologies. -- Toward a political economy of slave labor : hands, whipping-machines, and modern power / Edward E. Baptist -- Slavery's scientific management : masters and managers / Caitlin Rosenthal -- An international harvest : the second slavery, the Virginia-Brazil connection, and the development of the McCormick reaper / Daniel B. Rood -- Part 2. Slavery and finance. -- Neighbor-to-neighbor capitalism : local credit networks and the mortgaging of slaves / Bonnie Martin -- The contours of cotton capitalism : speculation, slavery, and economic panic in Mississippi, 1832-1841 / Joshua D. Rothman -- "Broad is de road dat leads ter death" : human capital and enslaved mortality / Daina Ramey Berry -- August Belmont and the world the slaves made / Kathryn Boodry -- Part 3. Networks of interest and the North. -- "What have we to do with slavery?" New Englanders and the slave economies of the West Indies / Eric Kimball -- "No country but their counting-houses" : the U.S.-Cuba-Baltic circuit, 1809-1812 / Stephen Chambers -- The coastwise slave trade and a mercantile community of interest / Calvin Schermerhorn -- Part 4. National institutions and natural boundaries. -- War and priests : Catholic colleges and slavery in the Age of Revolution / Craig Steven Wilder -- Capitalism, slavery, and the new epoch : Mathew Carey's 1819 / Andrew Shankman -- The market, utility, and slavery in Southern legal thought / Alfred L. Brophy -- Why did Northerners oppose the expansion of slavery? Economic development and education in the limestone South / John Majewski. |
| Summary |
Slavery's Capitalism explores the role of slavery in the development of the U.S. economy during the first decades of the nineteenth century. It tells the history of slavery as a story of national, even global, economic importance and investigates the role of enslaved Americans in the building of the modern world. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865.
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
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Slavery -- Economic aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01120438
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
To 1865
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Beckert, Sven, editor.
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Rockman, Seth, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780812248418 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0812248414 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780812224177 |
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0812224175 |
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