Slavery's Capitalism

Slavery's Capitalism
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2016-09-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0812248414

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.

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

The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
Author: Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300192002

"Focuses on networks of people, information, conveyances, and other resources and technologies that moved slave-based products from suppliers to buyers and users." (page 3) The book examines the credit and financial systems that grew up around trade in slaves and products made by slaves.