Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Introduction: Banking in the Nation’s Largest Slave Market 1
5. Part I : Financing Southwestern Expansion through the 1810s 15
6. Part II : Financing an Empire of Slavery in the 1820s and 1830s 75
7. Part III : The Collateral Damage of the Panics of 1837 and 1839 171
8. Epilogue: Banks, Debt, Emancipation, Reparations, and Memory 314
9. Acknowledgments 329
10. Abbreviations 335
11. Notes 339
12. Index 411