Author: Washington Augustus ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bank notes
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The History of the Banking Institutions Organized in South Carolina Prior to 1860
Author: Washington Augustus ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bank notes
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Banking on Slavery
Author: Sharon AnnPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226824608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery. It’s now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found in the structures of chattel slavery. It’s also understood that almost every other institution and aspect of life then was at least entangled with—and often profited from—slavery’s perpetuation. Yet as Sharon Ann Murphy shows in her powerful and unprecedented book, the centrality of enslaved labor to banking in the antebellum United States is far greater than previously thought. Banking on Slavery sheds light on precisely how the financial relationships between banks and slaveholders worked across the nineteenth-century South. Murphy argues that the rapid spread of slavery in the South during the 1820s and ’30s depended significantly upon southern banks’ willingness to financialize enslaved lives, with the use of enslaved individuals as loan collateral proving central to these financial relationships. She makes clear how southern banks were ready—and, in some cases, even eager—to alter time-honored banking practices to meet the needs of slaveholders. In the end, many of these banks sacrificed themselves in their efforts to stabilize the slave economy. Murphy also details how banks and slaveholders transformed enslaved lives from physical bodies into abstract capital assets. Her book provides an essential examination of how our nation’s financial history is more intimately intertwined with the dehumanizing institution of slavery than scholars have previously thought.
Report of the Historical Commission of South Carolina to the General Assemby of South Carolina at the Regular Session of ...
Author: Historical Commission of South CarolinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A History of Banking in Antebellum America
Author: Howard BodenhornPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669993
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Professor Bodenhorn reveals how America was served by an efficient system of financial intermediaries by the mid-nineteenth century.
Guide to the Study and Reading of South Carolina History
Author: James Harold EasterbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
"Topical Lists," it will be seen, is designed to serve as a syllabus for a course of study, or reading, in South Carolina history. The subject is presented under thirty topics. An outline in each case is followed by (1) a reference to the pertinent passages in the most reliable general history of the state, (2) references in other secondary works, (3) a selected list of source materials, and (4) references to the few textbooks and workbooks that are now available. The last have been included primarily for the teacher in the elementary grades who wishes to be guided quickly to books and articles that parallel and supplement these teaching aids. -
Southern Scoundrels
Author: Jeff ForretPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080717534X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The history of capitalist development in the United States is long, uneven, and overwhelmingly focused on the North. Macroeconomic studies of the South have primarily emphasized the role of the cotton economy in global trading networks. Until now, few in-depth scholarly works have attempted to explain how capitalism in the South took root and functioned in all of its diverse—and duplicitous—forms. Southern Scoundrels explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the region: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave traders, war profiteers, thieves, and marginal men who seized available opportunities to get ahead and, in doing so, left their mark on the southern economy. Eschewing conventional economic theory, this volume features narrative storytelling as engaging and seductive as the cast of shifty characters under examination. Contributors cover the chronological sweep of the nineteenth-century South, from the antebellum era through the tumultuous and chaotic Civil War years, and into Reconstruction and beyond. The geographic scope is equally broad, with essays encompassing the Chesapeake, South Carolina, the Lower Mississippi Valley, Texas, Missouri, and Appalachia. These essays offer a series of social histories on the nineteenth-century southern economy and the changes wrought by capitalist transformation. Tracing that story through the kinds of oily individuals who made it happen, Southern Scoundrels provides fascinating insights into the region’s hucksters and its history. Contents Introduction, Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker “Preachers and Peddlers: Credit and Belief in the Flush Times,” John Lindbeck “A Gentleman and a Scoundrel? Alexander McDonald, Financial Reputation, and Slavery’s Capitalism,” Alexandra J. Finley “‘How Deeply They Weed into the Pockets’: Slave Traders, Bank Speculators, and the Anatomy of a Chesapeake Wildcat, 1840–1843,” Jeff Forret “Bernard Kendig: Orchestrating Fraud in the Market and the Courtroom,” Maria R. Montalvo “William A. Britton v. Benjamin F. Butler: Occupied New Orleans, Confiscation, and the Disruption of the Cotton Trade in Wartime Natchez,” Jeff Strickland “Devils at the Doorstep: Confederate Judges, Masters of Sequestration,” Rodney J. Steward “‘Irresistibly Impelled toward Illegal Appropriation’: The Civil War Schemes of William G. Cheeney,” Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr. “Das Kapital on Tchoupitoulas Street: The Marketing of Stolen Goods and the Reserve Army of Labor in Reconstruction-Era New Orleans,” Bruce E. Baker “The Violent Lives of William Faucett,” Elaine S. Frantz “Eureka! Law and Order for Sale in Gilded Age Appalachia,” T. R. C. Hutton
The History of the Banking Institutions Organized in South Carolina
Author: W. A. (Washington Augustus) ClarkPublisher:
ISBN: 9781462239306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Hardcover reprint of the original 1922 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. for quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Clark, W. A. (Washington Augustus). the History of the Banking Institutions Organized In South Carolina Prior To 1860. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Clark, W. A. (Washington Augustus). the History of the Banking Institutions Organized In South Carolina Prior To 1860, . Columbia, S. C., Printed for the Historical Commission of South Carolina By the State Co., 1922. Subject: Banks and Banking
Votaries of Apollo
Author: Nicholas Michael ButlerPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570037054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A comprehensive account of the musical culture of Charlestons golden age
Report of the Historical Commission of the State of South Carolina
Author: Historical Commission of South CarolinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
State Banking in Early America
Author: Howard BodenhornPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190287314
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Howard Bodenhorn's State Banking in Early America studies the financial experimentation that took place in the United States between 1790 and 1860. Dr. Bodenhorn's book explores regional differences in banking structures, which bear indirectly in the conection between financial and economic development. If a single theme emerges, it is that the United States benefitted from its free banking philosophy in which state governments, rather than a centralized authority, created financial structures designed to serve specific, local needs. Thus decentralized federalism provided state legislatures with a great deal of flexibility in their individual approaches to economic and financial issues. The important lessons to be learned from Dr. Bodenhorn's historical account are that successful banking systems are flexible, predictable, and incentive-compatible; they meet the needs of the borrowers, depositors and shareholders, and they reduce downside risks to generally agreed upon levels. These lessons imply that we cannot, a priori, define an optimal, one-size-fits-all banking system. We need to know something about the formal and informal institutions underlying an economy and about the risk preferences of its citizenry. Historically, outsiders view Americans as experimenters and risk takers. Nowhere is this experimentation and risk taking more apparent than in early American banking policies.
