123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): The Future of North American Slavery: Industrialization, Railroads, and Finance in the Nineteenth Century

The Future of North American Slavery: Industrialization, Railroads, and Finance in the Nineteenth Century

AHA Session 219

Monday, January 5, 2009: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Riverside Ballroom (Sheraton New York)

Chair:

Pete Daniel, Smithsonian Institution

Papers:

“This Is the Way to Build Railroads”: Slavery and Railroads in Antebellum America
Aaron W. Marrs, United States Department of State

Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Industrialization of the Antebellum Chesapeake
Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University

Banks, Building Societies, and Speculators: Profiting from Human Collateral in Nineteenth-Century South Carolina
Bonnie M. Martin, Yale University

Comment:

William G. Thomas III, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

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