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Reflections on the loss of the freeborn American nation : banksters against people / H.L. Dowless.

Van Pelt Library E441 .D735 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dowless, H. L., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Slavery--Economic aspects--United States--History.
Slavery.
Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History.
Agriculture.
Agriculture--Economic aspects.
Free enterprise.
History.
Corporations--Political aspects.
Corporations.
Banks and banking--Political aspects.
Banks and banking.
Plantations--Economic aspects.
Plantations.
Slavery--Economic aspects.
United States.
Plantations--Economic aspects--United States--History.
Banks and banking--Political aspects--United States--History.
Corporations--Political aspects--United States--History.
Free enterprise--Political aspects--United States--History.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic aspects.
United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
Economic conditions.
Physical Description:
xvi, 184 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Algora Publishing, [2016]
Summary:
"Mr. Dowless argues and explains that the US Civil War was fought by segments of the nation that supported the imposition of a central bank, and laws designed to support bankers, corporations and their insider connections in the government to the detriment of the populace at large, against those Americans who advocated free enterprise and a light regime of laws that would allow and enable each citizen to prosper according to his abilities without undue taxation, licensing fees, and other laws geared to protect big corporations. Within that context, he shows that whereas the argument for and against slave holding was intentionally turned into an emotionally-driven moralistic argument, regrettably slave ownership was, up to the mid-19th century, the only economic choice to enable agricultural plantations attain economy of scale and thus produce a profit"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
How did we get here?
What Americans need to know now
The original plan
The first ninety years in a nutshell
A contest of wills
Those who resisted, how and why
A conclusion.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Dowless, H. L. Reflections on the loss of the free-born American nation
ISBN:
9781628942071
162894207X
9781628942088
1628942088
OCLC:
945232814

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