Tag: Calvin Schermerhorn
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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860
By Calvin Schermerhorn Available from Amazon.com Calvin Schermerhorn’s provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demonstrate how slavery was a national business supported by far-flung monetary and credit systems reaching…