The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism,

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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860

History > United States - 19th Century

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PublisherYale University Press
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139780300192001
PublishedMar 17 2015
Dimension9.4 X 6.4 X 1 inches
Weight 1.3 pounds
BISACHistory > United States - 19th Century
Categories(Single Author) Asian American
LanguageEnglish

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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 across the Atlantic Ocean. The author details the anatomy of slave supply chains and the chains of credit and commodities that intersected with them in virtually every corner of the pre-Civil War United States, and explores how an institution that destroyed lives and families contributed greatly to the growth of the expanding republic's capitalist economy.

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Calvin Schermerhorn grew up in Southern Maryland in a place whose beauty hid its past, particularly slavery and its legacies. After graduate degrees at Harvard Divinity School and the University of Virginia he became a historian of slavery, capitalism, and African American inequality, teaching the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction. He is currently Professor of History at Arizona State University and will be a Fulbright Senior Scholar in the United Kingdom in 2021 at the University of Nottingham.

He’s author of Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery, The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860, and Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South.

He is at heart a teacher and educator dedicated to bringing diverse subjects to life in the classroom, awaking and nurturing students’ passion for history, and opening students to unimagined career possibilities. He’s an eager advisor and mentor for student projects in African American, Southern, nineteenth-century U.S., economic, literary, and business history. He teaches a broad range of courses in African American, Atlantic, and North American history, the early U.S. republic, Civil War and Reconstruction, along with thematic courses on capitalism, forced migration, and global slavery. Arizona State has recognized these contributions with both of its top teaching honors, the Centennial Professorship in 2011 and the Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019.

Source: Arizona State University

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