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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: ledger and the chain
    sub title: how domestic slave traders shaped America
  title info:
    title: How domestic slave traders shaped America
  name:
    name part: Rothman, Joshua D.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 491 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 down to New Orleans. Slavers are often misremembered as pariahs of more cultivated society, but as Rothman argues, the men who perpetrated the slave trade were respected members of prominent social and business communities and understood themselves as patriotic Americans. By tracing the lives and careers of the nation's most notorious slave traders, The Ledger and the Chain shows how their business skills and remorseless violence together made the malevolent entrepreneurialism of the slave trade. And it reveals how this horrific, ubiquitous trade in human beings shaped a growing nation and corrupted it in ways still powerfully felt today.
  table of contents: Origins, 1789-1815 -- Choices, 1815-1827 -- Associates, 1827-1830 -- Currencies, 1830-1833 -- Dissolutions, 1833-1837 -- Reputations, 1837-1846 -- Legacies, 1846-1871 -- The Ledger And The Chain.
  note: Joshua D. Rothman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: n-us-ms
    geographic code: n-us-va
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Franklin and Armfield (Firm)
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Franklin, Isaac
      name part: 1789-1846
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Armfield, John
      name part: 1797-1871
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ballard, Rice C. (Rice Carter)
      name part: -1860
  subject:
    topic: Slave trade
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Slave traders
    geographic: Mississippi
    geographic: Natchez
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Slave traders
    geographic: Virginia
    geographic: Alexandria
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Slaves
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    topic: Economic aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / General
  classification: E442 .R68 2021
  classification: 306.3/620973
  identifier: 9781541616615
  identifier: 1541616618
  identifier: 9781541616592
  identifier: 2020038845
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200826
    record change date: 20250311135018.5
    record identifier: in00004395167