Early American Studies: Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (Hardcover)

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Human beings as depreciating capital, collateral and product. Global trade in cotton, sugar, tobacco and flour supported by this rotting platform. A huge complex of people and entities existed and profited from slavery without ever owning slaves. These essays are often dry, but enlightening.

from rivkat

Essays about how slavery built American capitalism as it was, including by funding Northern development and trans-Atlantic networks of wealth. Many of the essays deliberately challenge the distinction between a “slave society” and a “society with slaves” by highlighting how the latter often benef...

from rivkat

Essays about how slavery built American capitalism as it was, including by funding Northern development and trans-Atlantic networks of wealth. Many of the essays deliberately challenge the distinction between a “slave society” and a “society with slaves” by highlighting how the latter often benef...