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

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

Calvin Schermerhorn

352 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction economics history informative reflective medium-paced
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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 d...

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