5. Free Soil, Free Labor, and Free Markets: Antebellum Merchant Clerks, Industrial Statistics, and the Tautologies of Profit

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. An Alternative Tradition of Radicalism: African American Abolitionists and the Metaphor of Revolution 9
6. 2. Isaiah Rynders and the Ironies of Popular Democracy in Antebellum New York 31
7. 3. Leave of Court: African American Claims-Making in the Era of Dred Scott v. Sanford 54
8. 4. City Women: Slavery and Resistance in Antebellum St. Louis 75
9. 5. Free Soil, Free Labor, and Free Markets: Antebellum Merchant Clerks, Industrial Statistics, and the Tautologies of Profit 95
10. 6. Make “Every Slave Free, and Every Freeman a Voter”: The African American Construction of Suffrage Discourse in the Age of Emancipation 117
11. 7. Making It Fit: The Federal Government, Liberal Individualism, and the American West 141
12. 8. Reconstructing the Empire of Cotton: A Global Story 164
13. 9. Cuba Libre and American Imperial Nationalism: Conflicting Views of Racial Democracy in the Post- Reconstruction United States 191
14. 10. Transnational Solidarities: The Sacco and Vanzetti Case in Global Perspective 215
15. 11. “An Ironic Testimony to the Value of American Democracy”: Assimilationism and the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans 237
16. 12. Student Protest, “Law and Order,” and the Origins of African American Studies in California 258
17. 13. Duke Ellington Plays Baghdad: Rethinking Hard and Soft Power from the Outside In 279
18. 14. The Story of American Freedom—Before and After 9/11 301
19. Afterword: “From the Archives and from the Heart” 313
20. Notes on Contributors 319
21. Index 323