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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860
Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
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Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 644.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300192001
SKU
V9780300192001
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About Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
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.
Reviews for The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860
“The best book ever written on role of the interstate slave trade in the economic history of the United States—both north and south. Absolutely essential.”—Walter Johnson, author of River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
Walter Johnson “Shattering the myth of a neo-feudal, backward South, Calvin Schermerhorn deftly reveals the entrepreneurial slave traders who helped to develop American capitalism. Clear and cogent, The Business of Slavery illuminates the flow of humans, treated as commodities, passing through innovative conduits of transportation and finance to constitute a nation’s perverse wealth.”—Alan Taylor, author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832
Alan Taylor “In this powerful book, Calvin Schermerhorn revolutionizes how we view the domestic slave trade. The commodification of enslaved Americans not only drove the southern economy, but fueled capitalist development in the North and Europe. Splendidly written and tautly argued, this book is a singular achievement.”—Robert Gudmestad, author of Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
Robert Gudmestad “Historians have devoted considerable attention to the domestic slave trade, but the strategy of looking at the evolution of representative slave trading firms offers a fresh approach.”—John Majewski, University of California, Santa Barbara
John Majewski
Walter Johnson “Shattering the myth of a neo-feudal, backward South, Calvin Schermerhorn deftly reveals the entrepreneurial slave traders who helped to develop American capitalism. Clear and cogent, The Business of Slavery illuminates the flow of humans, treated as commodities, passing through innovative conduits of transportation and finance to constitute a nation’s perverse wealth.”—Alan Taylor, author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832
Alan Taylor “In this powerful book, Calvin Schermerhorn revolutionizes how we view the domestic slave trade. The commodification of enslaved Americans not only drove the southern economy, but fueled capitalist development in the North and Europe. Splendidly written and tautly argued, this book is a singular achievement.”—Robert Gudmestad, author of Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
Robert Gudmestad “Historians have devoted considerable attention to the domestic slave trade, but the strategy of looking at the evolution of representative slave trading firms offers a fresh approach.”—John Majewski, University of California, Santa Barbara
John Majewski