Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. There was a problem loading your book clubs. The economic importance of slavery is something avoided by those wishing to glorify the American past while Marxist influenced scholars tended to regard slavery as an outmoded, anti-capitalist institution that was vanquished by emerging capitalism. Kindle version has not been formatted. Rey Bowen. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, rather, the impossibility of understanding the nation's spectacular pattern of economic development without situating slavery front and center. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. There was a problem loading your book clubs. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Drawing on the expertise of sixteen scholars who are at the forefront of rewriting the history of American economic development, Slavery's Capitalism identifies slavery as the primary force driving key innovations in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, management, and political economy that are too often attributed to the so-called free market. These works often present historically implausible arguments, such as the notion that modern double-entry accounting emerged from plantation ledger books (the practice actually traces to the banking economies of Renaissance Italy), or that its use by slave owners is distinctively capitalistic (even the Soviets employed modern accounting practices, despite attempting to centrally plan their … Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2017, Seeing it in print solidified what elders have told me. Please try again. Brand new Book. It is strictly an economic study of the role of Negro slavery and the slave trade in providing the capital which financed the Industrial Revolution in England and of mature industrial capitalism in destroying the slave system. What can I say about this book that has not been said already. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Ebook written by Edward E Baptist. Black history, then, is the black book of capitalism. Groundbreaking, thoroughly researched, expansive, and provocative it will force scholars of slavery and its aftermath to reconsider long held assumptions about the 'peculiar institution's' relationship to American capitalism and … Approaching the study of slavery as the originating catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism casts new light on American credit markets, practices of offshore investment, and understandings of human capital. Rather than seeing slavery as outside the institutional structures of capitalism, the essayists recover slavery's importance to the American economic past and prompt enduring questions about the relationship of market freedom to human freedom. University of North Carolina Press; 1st edition (October 14, 1994). Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman. The introduction is thorough and the notes quite helpful. Allen Kaufman. Years ahead of its Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. The authors of the essays in this book make the crucial point that the expansion and success of antebellum slavery was an integral part of emerging 19th century global capitalist, that it developed many of the features associated with "modern" capitalism, and that it was a critical, perhaps the critical, engine of American economic development. An explanation of the phenomenon of racism throughout history is sought in this book. 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