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

by Calvin Schermerhorn

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300192002
• ISBN13: 9780300192001
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"