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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815 - 1860 by Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 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 th
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- Author
- Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300192001
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Economics, Science
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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