Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Plantation Technologies
5. Chapter 1. Toward a Politi cal Economy of Slave Labor 31
6. Chapter 2. Slavery’s Scientific Management 62
7. Chapter 3. An International Harvest 87
8. Part II. Slavery and Finance
9. Chapter 4. Neighbor- to- Neighbor Capitalism 107
10. Chapter 5. The Contours of Cotton Capitalism 122
11. Chapter 6. “Broad is de Road dat Leads ter Death” 146
12. Chapter 7. August Belmont and the World the Slaves Made 163
13. Part III. Networks of Interest and the North
14. Chapter 8. “What have we to do with slavery?” 181
15. Chapter 9. “No country but their counting- houses” 195
16. Chapter 10. The Coastwise Slave Trade and a Mercantile Community of Interest 209
17. Part IV. National Institutions and Natural Boundaries
18. Chapter 11. War and Priests 227
19. Chapter 12. Capitalism, Slavery, and the New Epoch 243
20. Chapter 13. The Market, Utility, and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought 262
21. Chapter 14. Why Did Northerners Oppose the Expansion of Slavery? 277
22. Notes 299
23. Contributors 385
24. Index 389
25. Acknowledgments 405