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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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.
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