![]() ![]() The Bank of the United States was quasi-public, issuing its own notes alongside, in 1835, some seven hundred state-chartered banks throughout the country. Perhaps the best component of his study of this large topic concerns his economic analysis, including the profits from the African slave trade, the importance of the cotton economy, “labor camps” during the westward expansion of the 1830s–50s, and the financing of the domestic slave trade (130). Brown’s words provide an appropriate frame for what follows, including the slow death of slavery in the North, the expansion of the Cotton Empire during the antebellum era, and everyday slave life, in a chapter titled “Life in the Quotidian.” Schermerhorn also examines sexual violence, the slave narratives, geopolitics, the coming of the Civil War, the war itself, and Reconstruction. In this volume in the Cambridge Essential Histories series for undergraduate students, Calvin Schermerhorn examines the history of slavery in the United States, using words from William Wells Brown, a famous fugitive slave, as his title. ![]()
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