Slavery's Capitalism : A New History of American Economic Development /
Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman.
- 1 online resource : 5 illus.
- Early American Studies .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Plantation Technologies -- Chapter 1. Toward a Politi cal Economy of Slave Labor -- Chapter 2. Slavery’s Scientific Management -- Chapter 3. An International Harvest -- Part II. Slavery and Finance -- Chapter 4. Neighbor- to- Neighbor Capitalism -- Chapter 5. The Contours of Cotton Capitalism -- Chapter 6. “Broad is de Road dat Leads ter Death” -- Chapter 7. August Belmont and the World the Slaves Made -- Part III. Networks of Interest and the North -- Chapter 8. “What have we to do with slavery?” -- Chapter 9. “No country but their counting- houses” -- Chapter 10. The Coastwise Slave Trade and a Mercantile Community of Interest -- Part IV. National Institutions and Natural Boundaries -- Chapter 11. War and Priests -- Chapter 12. Capitalism, Slavery, and the New Epoch -- Chapter 13. The Market, Utility, and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought -- Chapter 14. Why Did Northerners Oppose the Expansion of Slavery? -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments