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In __The Ledger and the Chain,__ prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American nation. Few slave traders were more successful than Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who ran Franklin and Armfield, and none were more influential. Drawing on source material from more than thirty archives in a dozen states, Rothman follows the three traders through their first meetings, the rise of their firm, and its eventual dissolution. Responsible for selling between 8,000 and 12,000 slaves from the Upper South to Deep South plantations over a period of eight years in the 1830s, they ran an extensive and innovative operation, with offices in New Orleans and Alexandria in Louisiana and Natchez in Mississippi. They advertised widely, borrowed heavily from bankers and other creditors, extended long term credit to their buyers, and had ships built to take slaves from Virginia do

Who reads The Ledger and the Chain : How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America?

Author

Joshua D. Rothman

Publisher

Basic Books, Hachette Book Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781541616615

Category

history

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science

Rating

4.6 / 5 (161 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14