Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (Early American Studies)

by Sven Beckert (Author), Seth Rockman (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2018

  $40.36

  Slavery's Capitalism explores the role of slavery in the development of the U.S. economy during the first decades of the nineteenth century. It tells the history of slavery as a story of national, even global, economic importance and investigates the role of enslaved Americans in the building of the modern world.