Slave Agriculture And Financial Markets in Antebellum America - The Bank of the United States in Mississippi 1831-1852

Informationen zum Autor Richard Holcombe KilbourneJr. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter 1 Exchange and Money Markets; Chapter 2 The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1836; Chapter 3 Pennsylvania and Mississippi: The United States Bank, 1836–1841; Chapter 4 Assignments, preferences, and Trusts: The Failed Bank of the United States in the Courts of Mississippi and the Nation; Chapter 5 The Business of Making Collections; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

Product details

• Authors: Richard Holcombe Kilbourne, Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2006
• EAN: 9781851968909
• ISBN: 978-1-85196-890-9
• No. of pages: 202
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Financial History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery