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Banking on slavery : financing Southern expansion in the antebellum United States /

"Sharon Murphy's book is a powerful and unprecedented dive into the entangled history of banking and slavery in nineteenth-century America. Slaveholders developed credit and creditworthiness by using enslaved people as collateral, and this allowed them to undertake an endless array of proj...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murphy, Sharon Ann, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Series:American beginnings, 1500-1900.
Subjects:
Banks and banking > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Banks and banking > United States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Economic aspects > United States.
Slavery > United States > History > 19th century.
Banks and banking.
Slavery.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Southern States.
United States.
1800-1899
History.

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