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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

Joshua D. Rothman

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In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history. Far from social outcasts, they were rich and widely respected businessmen, and their company sat at the center of capital flows connecting southern fields to northeastern banks. Bringing together entrepreneurial ambition and remorseless violence toward enslaved people, domestic slave traders produced an atrocity that forever transformed the nation.

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ISBN10:: 1541616618

ISBN13:: 9781541616615

kindle Asin:: B08F517HX3

The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

Joshua D. Rothman

4.30/5 (237 ratings)

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In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history. Far from social outcasts, they were rich and widely respected businessmen, and their company sat at the center of capital flows connecting southern fields to northeastern banks. Bringing together entrepreneurial ambition and remorseless violence toward enslaved people, domestic slave traders produced an atrocity that forever transformed the nation.

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ISBN10:: 1541616618

ISBN13:: 9781541616615

kindle Asin:: B08F517HX3

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