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The American Slave Coast offers a comprehensive re‑look at U.S. history, focusing on the brutal system whereby enslaved women’s reproductive labor became a cornerstone of the nation’s economy. By tracing how the children of slaves served as a form of capital in loans and credit, the book demonstrates how slavery was deeply embedded in the financial fabric of the southern states. It argues that this system could only be dismantled through the Civil War’s liberation of enslaved people, presenting familiar historical figures and events through a new, starkly critical lens.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Ned Sublette
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