Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
ISBN-10
0812248414
ISBN-13
9780812248418
Category
History
Pages
416
Language
English
Published
2016-08-08
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Authors
Seth Rockman, Sven Beckert

Description

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.

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