Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1852

Richard Holcombe Kilbourne

Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America

The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1852

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Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets marks an important chapter in the study of Antebellum southern slavery and the credit system. Kilbourne analyzes the systems which credit intermediaries such as chartered banks and commercial partnerships used to finance slave agriculture, using the Mississippi branch of the Second Bank of the United States as a case study. He explains in detail how the Bank supported the government’s and the nation’s credit abroad by providing apparently limitless credit facilities to southern planters along the Mississippi river.
This ground-breaking new book draws heavily on the only extant full collection of records from the Second Bank of the United States. It is the first major scholarly undertaking to exploit this archive.

"'a nuanced qualitative history of credit relations in the antebellum South.'"

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Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America

The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1852

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-v

Dedication
pp vi-vi

Introduction
pp 1-10

1 - Exchange and Money Markets
pp 11-24

2 - The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831-1836
pp 25-56

3 - Pennsylvania and Mississippi: The United States Bank, 1836-1841
pp 57-106

4 - Assignments, Preferences, and Trusts: The Failed Bank of the United States in the Courts of Mississippi and the Nation
pp 107-128

5 - The Business of Making Collections
pp 129-148

Conclusion
pp 149-154

Notes
pp 155-189

Bibliography
pp 190-196

Index
pp 197-202

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