Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America

Download or read book Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America written by Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the study of Antebellum southern slavery and the credit system. This work explains how the Bank of the United States supported the government's and the nation's credit abroad by providing seemingly limitless credit facilities to southern planters, especially in the territories along the lower Mississippi River.