EPISODE · Mar 18, 2014
7.5. The Domestic Slave Trade
from American Capitalism: A History
Though capitalism is usually thought to depend on wage labor, we will look at how slave labor in the cotton fields of the American south was crucial to the textile industries of England and New England. We will also look at how one man experienced the expansion of cotton slavery and how his life helps us understand the cotton economy.
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