Slavery's capitalism : a new history of American economic development
Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman
- Philadelphia : PENN University of Pennsylvania Press, c2016
- viii, 406 pages ; 23cm.
Includes index
Part I. Plantation Technologies -- Part II. Slavery and Finance -- Part III. Networks of Interest and the North -- Part IV. National Institutions and Natural Boundaries.
" The intimate relationship between capatilism 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. Slavery's Capatilism announces the emmergence of a new generation of scholars whose detailed research into ver nook and cranny of emerging capitalism reveals the inextricable links between the enslavement of people of African descent and today's global economy"