Contributions

  • Sublette, Constance - Contributor

Publication

2016 - Lawrence Hill Books, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

188,500 words, Guess

Page Count

754 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101613748205
  • ISBN-139781613748206
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015002493
  • OCLC Control Number909025382
  • Better World Books9781613748206
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC331.11/7340973
  • LCCE442 .S82 2016
  • LCCE442.S82 2015

Description

"A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could only be decommissioned by Emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light"--

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  • The American slave coast: a history of the slave-breeding industryLawrence Hill Books2016-01-01
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