Banking on slavery : financing Southern expansion in the antebellum United States / Sharon Ann Murphy.
Murphy, Sharon Ann, 1974- author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2023
HG2472 .M867 2023
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Title Banking on slavery : financing Southern expansion in the antebellum United States / Sharon Ann Murphy.
Author Murphy, Sharon Ann, 1974- author.
ISBN 9780226824604
0226824608
9780226824598
0226824594
9780226825137
0226825132
Published Chicago, IL ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (419 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number HG2472 .M867 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 332.10975
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Corporate Author ProQuest (Firm)
Series American beginnings, 1500-1900.
Available in Other Form Print version: 0226825132
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Introduction : banking in the nation's largest slave market
Part I. Financing southwestern expansion through the 1810s. The limits of early bank financing of slavery
Adapting slave financing to the needs of the frontier South during the nation's first boom and bust
Part II. Financing an empire of slavery in the 1820s and 1830s. Old South banks and frontier finance
Pushing financial boundaries with traditional banks
Reimagining banking for a slave economy
Part III. The collateral damage of the Panics of 1837 and 1839. Foreclosing (or not) on delinquent slaveholders
Escaping debt : bankruptcy, fraud, and going to Texas
When banks fail
From commercial banking to private finance
Epilogue : banks, debt, emancipation, reparations, and memory.

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