TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sublette,Ned
AU  - Sublette,Constance
TI  - The American slave coast: a history of the slave-breeding industry 
SN  - 9781613748206 (hardback)
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Lawrence Hill Books
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Slave traders
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Sexual behavior
KW  - Slaveholders
KW  - Southern States
KW  - 1775-1865
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 699-732) and index; Introduction -- The capitalized womb -- The Chesapeake and the Lowcountry -- Silent profit -- The star-spangled slave trade -- The slaveocracy -- The revolution
N2  - "A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could only be decommissioned by Emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light"--
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