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The business of slavery and the rise of American capitalism, 1815-1860

Calvin Schermerhorn (Author)
"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

eBook, English, 2015
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2015