Slavery’s Capitalism

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The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist was an eye-opening book about the reality of slavery in America and how it was the foundation for American economic success in 19th century.

Slavery’s Capitalism doesn’t provide the same impact, being a collection of essays about different aspects of the slave trade in the Americas. It does provide some additional context and detail but some chapters are definitely more compelling than others.

PART I. Plantation Technologies

Chapter 1. Toward a Political Economy of Slave Labor: Hands, Whipping-Machines, and Modern Power. Edward E Baptiste
Chapter 2. Slavery’s Scientific Management: Masters and Managers. Caitlin Rosenthal
Chapter 3. An International Harvest: The Second Slavery, the Virginia-Brazil Connection and the Development of the McCormick Reaper. Daniel B. Rood

PART II. Slavery and Finance

Chapter 4. Neighbor-to-Neighbor Capitalism: Local Credit Networks and the Mortgaging of Slaves. Bonnie Martin
Chapter 5. The Contours of Capitalism: Speculation, Slavery and Economic Panic in Mississippi, 1832-1841. Joshua D. Rothman
Chapter 7. August Belmont and the World the Slaves Made. Kathryn Boodry

PART III. Networks of Interest and the North

Chapter 8. “What have we to do with slavery?” New England and the Slave Economies of the West Indies. Eric Kimball
Chapter 9. “No country but their counting-houses”: The U.S.-Cuba-Baltic Circuit, 1809-1812
Chapter 10. The Coastwise Slave Trade and a Mercantile Community of Interest Calvin Schermerhorn

PART IV. National Institutions and Natural Boundaries

Chapter 11. War and Priests: Catholic Colleges and Slavery in the Age of Revolution Craig Steven Wilder
Chapter 12. Capitalism, Slavery, and the New Epoch: Mathew Carey’s 1819. Andrew Shankman
Chapter 13. The Marketm Utility and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought. Alfred L. Bropht
Chapter 14. Why Did Northerners Oppose the Expansion of Slavery? Economic Development and Education in the Limestone South. John Majewski

Publisher’s Description: “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.”