Slave agriculture and financial markets in antebellum America : the Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831-1852 / by Richard Holcombe Kilbourne, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kilbourne, Richard Holcombe.

Series:

Financial history (London, England) ; no. 1.

Financial history ; no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bank of the United States (1816-1836).

Banks and banking--Mississippi--History--19th century.

Banks and banking.

Credit--Mississippi--History--19th century.

Credit.

Finance--Mississippi--History--19th century.

Finance.

Slavery--Economic aspects--Mississippi--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 202 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<i>Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets</i> 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. <br> 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.

Contents:

1. Exchange and money markets

2. The bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831-1836

3. Pennsylvania and Mississippi : the United States Bank, 1836-1841

4. Assignments, preferences, and trusts : the failed bank of the United States in the courts of Mississippi and the nation

5. The business of making collections.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-138-66347-6

1-317-31518-9

1-315-65314-1

1-280-73839-1

9786610738397

1-85196-540-8

9781315653143

OCLC:

476125113