{"product_id":"slaverys-capitalism-9780812248418","title":"Slaverys Capitalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world''s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. \u003ci\u003eSlavery''s Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e argues for slavery''s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, rather, the impossibility of understanding the nation''s spectacular pattern of economic development without situating slavery front and center. American capitalism—renowned for its celebration of market competition, private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the expertise of sixteen schol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSlavery's Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e is a time capsule, neatly containing one of the most important developments in American scholarly and public life that took place during the Obama presidency. . . . The publication of \u003ci\u003eSlavery's Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e at the tail end of the Obama era thus provides the perfect opportunity to take stock of what was accomplished in the last round of historicization: to see what is valuable in the paradigm of 'slavery's capitalism,' what is new about the 'new' history of capitalism in the United States, and what, if any, dangers of presentism its practitioners succumbed to. The book both incorporates and builds on a wave of recent scholarship on slavery and capitalism in the United States.\" * \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"The intimate relationship between capitalism and slavery has been too-long dismissed, and with it, the centrality of African and African American labor to the foundation of our modern economic system. \u003ci\u003eSlavery's Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e announces the emergence of a new generation of scholars whose detailed research into every nook and cranny of emerging capitalism reveals the inextricable links between the enslavement of people of African descent and today's global economy.\" * Leslie Harris, Emory University *\u003cbr\u003e\"The centrality of slavery to the economic development of the United States is revealed here more fully, in more dimensions, than in any other book. Anyone who wants to understand this profound revolution in historical thinking will find no better place to start.\" * Edward L. Ayers, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This fascinating collection of essays adds striking new insights to the venerable debate over the relationship between capitalism and slavery. It demonstrates slavery's centrality to the nineteenth-century Atlantic economy, and how slavery was fully compatible with technological, managerial, and financial innovation, but also why southern slavery differed from northern capitalism in ways that helped to produce the irrepressible conflict.\" * Eric Foner, author of \u003ci\u003eGateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"With some of the best work in one of the hottest fields in American history, \u003ci\u003eSlavery's Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e re-centers the history of American capitalism on racial slavery as the U.S. economy's initial engine for development. I admire the ambition of the scholarly project and applaud the topical range of the essays.\" * Gary J. Kornblith, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eCapitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Slavery's Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e —Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman\u003cbr\u003e PART I. PLANTATION TECHNOLOGIES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Toward a Political Economy of Slave Labor: Hands, Whipping-Machines, and Modern Power\u003cbr\u003e —Edward E. Baptist\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Slavery's Scientific Management: Masters and Managers\u003cbr\u003e —Caitlin Rosenthal\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. An International Harvest: The Second Slavery, the Virginia-Brazil Connection, and the Development of the McCormick Reaper\u003cbr\u003e —Daniel B. Rood\u003cbr\u003e PART II. SLAVERY AND FINANCE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Neighbor-to-Neighbor Capitalism: Local Credit Networks and the Mortgaging of Slaves\u003cbr\u003e —Bonnie Martin\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Contours of Cotton Capitalism: Speculation, Slavery, and Economic Panic in Mississippi, 1832-1841\u003cbr\u003e —Joshua D. Rothman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"Broad is de Road dat Leads ter Death\": Human Capital and Enslaved Mortality\u003cbr\u003e —Daina Ramey Berry\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. August Belmont and the World the Slaves Made—Kathryn Boodry\u003cbr\u003e PART III. NETWORKS OF INTEREST AND THE NORTH\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. \"What have we to do with slavery?\" New Englanders and the Slave Economies of the West Indies\u003cbr\u003e —Eric Kimball\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. \"No country but their counting-houses\": The U.S.-Cuba-Baltic Circuit, 1809-1812\u003cbr\u003e —Stephen Chambers\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. The Coastwise Slave Trade and a Mercantile Community of Interest\u003cbr\u003e —Calvin Schermerhorn\u003cbr\u003e PART IV. NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND NATURAL BOUNDARIES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. War and Priests: Catholic Colleges and Slavery in the Age of Revolution\u003cbr\u003e —Craig Steven Wilder\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Capitalism, Slavery, and the New Epoch: Mathew Carey's 1819\u003cbr\u003e —Andrew Shankman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. The Market, Utility, and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought\u003cbr\u003e —Alfred L. Brophy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. Why Did Northerners Oppose the Expansion of Slavery? Economic Development and Education in the Limestone South\u003cbr\u003e —John Majewski\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405728260439,"sku":"9780812248418","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812248418.jpg?v=1730493417","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/slaverys-capitalism-9780812248418","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}