Introduction. Slavery's Capitalism

—Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman

PART I. PLANTATION TECHNOLOGIES

Chapter 1. Toward a Political Economy of Slave Labor: Hands, Whipping-Machines, and Modern Power

—Edward E. Baptist

Chapter 2. Slavery's Scientific Management: Masters and Managers

—Caitlin Rosenthal

Chapter 3. An International Harvest: The Second Slavery, the Virginia-Brazil Connection, and the Development of the McCormick Reaper

—Daniel B. Rood

PART II. SLAVERY AND FINANCE

Chapter 4. Neighbor-to-Neighbor Capitalism: Local Credit Networks and the Mortgaging of Slaves

—Bonnie Martin

Chapter 5. The Contours of Cotton Capitalism: Speculation, Slavery, and Economic Panic in Mississippi, 1832-1841

—Joshua D. Rothman

Chapter 6. "Broad is de Road dat Leads ter Death": Human Capital and Enslaved Mortality

—Daina Ramey Berry

Chapter 7. August Belmont and the World the Slaves Made—Kathryn Boodry

PART III. NETWORKS OF INTEREST AND THE NORTH

Chapter 8. "What have we to do with slavery?" New Englanders and the Slave Economies of the West Indies

—Eric Kimball

Chapter 9. "No country but their counting-houses": The U.S.-Cuba-Baltic Circuit, 1809-1812

—Stephen Chambers

Chapter 10. The Coastwise Slave Trade and a Mercantile Community of Interest

—Calvin Schermerhorn

PART IV. NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND NATURAL BOUNDARIES

Chapter 11. War and Priests: Catholic Colleges and Slavery in the Age of Revolution

—Craig Steven Wilder

Chapter 12. Capitalism, Slavery, and the New Epoch: Mathew Carey's 1819

—Andrew Shankman

Chapter 13. The Market, Utility, and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought

—Alfred L. Brophy

Chapter 14. Why Did Northerners Oppose the Expansion of Slavery? Economic Development and Education in the Limestone South

—John Majewski

Notes

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments