Seth Perry, author of Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States:
Slaughter’s study of ‘Christian business enterprises’ is a timely, readable, and searching account of the long-standing entanglement of religion and business in early national America. Few recent works have done as much to demonstrate the connections between specific forms of Christian theology and market capitalism.

Sharon Murphy, author of Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States:
In Faith in Markets, Slaughter expertly explores how early American Protestants grappled with the moral implications of capitalism. Neither fully embracing nor rejecting a laissez-faire market model, his protagonists sought to transform capitalism into a tool of moral uplift. This is a must-read book for anyone seeking to understand the roots of American Christianity’s relationship with capitalism.

Kathryn Lofton, author of Consuming Religion:
The long history of free enterprise in the United States cannot be understood without reckoning with the history of religion. Wherever a marketplace emerged it did so in loud engagement with Protestants who sought its use for varied theological and social ends. A critical intervention in the history of capitalism.

Paul Harvey, author of Christianity and Race in the American South: A History:
This book is an extraordinarily well-researched examination of the origins of what we now call ‘Christian business enterprise’ and an impeccably detailed and rich account of three different forms of Christian business enterprises. Throughout, Slaughter provides a beautifully wrought narrative of these enterprises, their founders, and how Christianity and capitalism interacted.