Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States

by Sharon Ann Murphy

A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery.

It's now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found in the structures of chattel slavery. It's also understood that almost every other institution and aspect of life then was at least entangled with--and often profited from--slavery's perpetuation. Yet as Sharon Ann...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226824594
• ISBN13: 9780226824598
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"