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020			_a9781541616615 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9781541616592 _q(ebook)
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050	0	0	_aE442 _b.R68 2021
082	0	0	_a306.3620973 _bROT
100	1		_aRothman, Joshua D., _eauthor. _997636
245	1	4	_aThe ledger and the chain : _bhow domestic slave traders shaped America _cJoshua D. Rothman.
246	3	0	_aHow domestic slave traders shaped America
250			_aFirst Edition.
260			_aNew York : _bBasic Books, _c2021
263			_a2104
264		1	_c2021.
300			_a491p
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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. Few slave traders were more successful than Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who ran Franklin and Armfield, and none were more influential. Drawing on source material from more than thirty archives in a dozen states, Rothman follows the three traders through their first meetings, the rise of their firm, and its eventual dissolution. Responsible for selling between 8,000 and 12,000 slaves from the Upper South to Deep South plantations over a period of eight years in the 1830s, they ran an extensive and innovative operation, with offices in New Orleans and Alexandria in Louisiana and Natchez in Mississippi. They advertised widely, borrowed heavily from bankers and other creditors, extended long term credit to their buyers, and had ships built to take slaves from Virginia down to New Orleans. Slavers are often misremembered as pariahs of more cultivated society, but as Rothman argues, the men who perpetrated the slave trade were respected members of prominent social and business communities and understood themselves as patriotic Americans. 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aFranklin, Isaac, _d1789-1846. _997637
600	1	0	_aArmfield, John, _d1797-1871. _997638
600	1	0	_aBallard, Rice C. _q(Rice Carter), _d-1860. _997639
610	2	0	_aFranklin and Armfield (Firm) _xHistory _997640
650		0	_aSlave trade _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century. _997641
650		0	_aSlave traders _zMississipi _zNatchez _xHistory _y19th century. _997642
650		0	_aSlave traders _zVirginia _zAlexandira _xHistory _y19th century. _997643
650		0	_aSlaves _zUnited States _xSocial conditions _y19th century. _997644
650		0	_aSlavery _xEconomic aspects _zUnited States. _997645
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