| Edition |
First Edition. |
| Descript |
xi, 491 pages : black and white illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-466) and index. |
| Summary |
"In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American nation...By tracing the lives and careers of the nation's most notorious slave traders, The Ledger and the Chain shows how their business skills and remorseless violence together made the malevolent entrepreneurialism of the slave trade. And it reveals how this horrific, ubiquitous trade in human beings shaped a growing nation and corrupted it in ways still powerfully felt today"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Franklin and Armfield (Firm) -- History.
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Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Slave traders -- Mississippi -- Natchez -- History -- 19th century.
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Slave traders -- Virginia -- Alexandira -- History -- 19th century.
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Enslaved people -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Enslaved people -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Franklin, Isaac, 1789-1846.
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Armfield, John, 1797-1871.
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Ballard, Rice C. (Rice Carter), -1860.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9781541616615 hardcover |
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1541616618 hardcover |
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