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) |
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Slave trade -- United States -- History
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Slave traders -- United States -- History
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Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States
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Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions
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Enslaved persons -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History
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Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History
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Slave trade -- Southern States -- History
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Slave traders -- Southern States -- History
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Enslavement -- economics
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Enslaved Persons -- history
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Enslavement -- history
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Sexual Behavior -- history
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Slave trade
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Slave traders
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Slaveholders
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Slavery -- Economic aspects
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Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
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Sklavenhandel
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Sklaverei
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SUBJECT |
Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125646
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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Southern States
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United States
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USA
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Sublette, Constance, author.
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ISBN |
9781613748213 |
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1613748213 |
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9781613748237 |
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161374823X |
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