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  • Accounting for Slavery

    Masters and Management

    A Five Books Best Economics Book of the YearA Politico Great Weekend Read“Absolutely compelling.”—Diane Coyle“The evolution of modern management is usually associated with good old-fashioned intelligence and ingenuity…But capitalism is not just about the free market; it was also built on the backs of slaves.”—ForbesThe story of modern management generally looks to the factories of England and New ... Leer más

    $18.09 USD

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    Accounting for Slavery

    Masters and Management

    Narrado por Allyson Johnson ...

    Completo

    7 hora 43 minutos

    The story of modern management generally looks to the factories of England and New England for its genesis. But after scouring through old accounting books, Caitlin Rosenthal discovered that Southern planter-capitalists practiced an early form of scientific management. They took meticulous notes, carefully recording daily profits and productivity, and subjected their slaves to experiments and ... Leer más

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  • The Half Has Never Been Told

    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

    The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in ... Leer más

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  • The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

    The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

    This “must-read for anyone interested in understanding American history” reframes how we think about slavery, reparations, 19th-century medical education—and the value of life and death (Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton).“A brilliant resurrection of the forgotten people who gave their lives to build our country.” —Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsIn life and ... Leer más

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  • The Devil's Half Acre

    The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

    de Kristen Green ...
    The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUsIn The Devil’s Half Acre, New York Times bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of research to tell the extraordinary and little-known story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who blazed a path of liberation for thousands. She was forced to have ... Leer más

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  • The Weeping Time

    Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

    In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, ... Leer más

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  • Soul by Soul

    Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

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  • Slavery's Capitalism

    A New History of American Economic Development

    Edición de Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to ... Leer más

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  • Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

    The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity

    de Michael Meyer ...
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  • The Ledger and the Chain

    How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

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  • Planters, Merchants, and Slaves

    Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820

    Series series American Beginnings, 1500–1900
    As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because—to speak bluntly—it worked. These ... Leer más

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