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Author Sublette, Ned, 1951- author.

Title The American slave coast : a history of the slave-breeding industry / Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette
Edition First edition
Published Chicago, Illinois : Lawrence Hill Books, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 754 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Part One. The Capitalized Womb. -- The Mother of Slavery -- Protectionism, or, The Importance of 1808 -- A Literature of Terror -- Natural Increase -- Little Shadows -- Species of Property -- Part Two. The Chesapeake and the Lowcountry. -- Rawrenock -- A Cargo of Shining Dirt -- Our Principall Wealth -- Maria's Land -- Barbados -- The Anglo-Saxon Model -- Carolina -- The Separate Traders -- Charles Town -- Savannah and Stono -- A Rough Set of People, but Somewhat Caressed -- Ballast -- Part Three. Silent Profit. -- 19 Newspapers as Money as People -- Lord Dunmore's Blackbirds -- The General Inconvenience -- The Fugue of Silences -- Ten Thousand Powers -- The French Revolution in America -- Part Four. The Star-Spangled Slave Trade. -- The Cotton Club -- The Terrible Republic -- I Do Not Threaten the Government with Civil War -- These Infernal Principles -- The Hireling and Slave -- A Jog of the Elbow -- Part Five. The Slaveocracy. -- Swallowed by Millions -- Democratizing Capital -- Old Robbers -- Wake Up Rich -- The Slave Trade to Cuba and Brazil -- Heaps and Piles of Money -- The Slave Power. -- Manifest Destiny's Child -- A Letter from Virginia -- Communists in Blackface -- Hiring Day -- Part Six. The Revolution. -- Vanish Like a Dream -- A Snake Biting Its Tail -- Assignment in Paraguay -- The Decommissioning of Human Capital -- A Weird, Plaintive Wail
Summary "A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could only be decommissioned by Emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 22, 2016)
Subject Slave trade -- United States -- History
Slave traders -- United States -- History
Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions
Enslaved persons -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History
Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History
Slave trade -- Southern States -- History
Slave traders -- Southern States -- History
Enslavement -- economics
Enslaved Persons -- history
Enslavement -- history
Sexual Behavior -- history
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Slave trade
Slave traders
Slaveholders
Slavery -- Economic aspects
Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
Sklavenhandel
Sklaverei
SUBJECT Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125646
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject Southern States
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Sublette, Constance, author.
ISBN 9781613748213
1613748213
9781613748237
161374823X