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The Ledger and the Chain

How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

By: Joshua D. Rothman

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The Ledger and the Chain

How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

By: Joshua D. Rothman

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade—and its role in the making of America. Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men—who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South—were essential to slavery's expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States. In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history. Far from social outcasts, they were rich and widely respected businessmen, and their company sat at the center of capital flows connecting southern fields to northeastern banks. Bringing together entrepreneurial ambition and remorseless violence toward enslaved people, domestic slave traders produced an atrocity that forever transformed the nation.

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The Ledger and the Chain

How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

By: Joshua D. Rothman

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Flush Times and Fever Dreams

A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson

By: Joshua D. Rothman

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A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson

By: Joshua D. Rothman

In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the "Arkansas morass" in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves. Stewart's adventure led to a sensational trial and a wildly popular published account that would ultimately help trigger widespread violence during the summer of 1835, when five men accused of being professional gamblers were hanged in Vicksburg, nearly a score of others implicated with a gang of supposed slave thieves were executed in plantation districts, and even those who tried to stop the bloodshed found themselves targeted as dangerous and subversive. Using Stewart's story as his point of entry, Joshua D. Rothman details why these events, which engulfed much of central and western Mississippi, came to pass. He also explains how the events revealed the fears, insecurities, and anxieties underpinning the cotton boom that made Mississippi the most seductive and exciting frontier in the Age of Jackson. As investors, settlers, slaves, brigands, and fortune-hunters converged in what was then America's Southwest, they created a tumultuous landscape that promised boundless opportunity and spectacular wealth. Predicated on ruthless competition, unsustainable debt, brutal exploitation, and speculative financial practices that looked a lot like gambling, this landscape also produced such profound disillusionment and conflict that it contained the seeds of its own potential destruction. Rothman sheds light on the intertwining of slavery and capitalism in the period leading up to the Panic of 1837, highlighting the deeply American impulses underpinning the evolution of the slave South and the dizzying yet unstable frenzy wrought by economic flush times. It is a story with lessons for our own day. Published in association with the Library Company of Philadelphia's Program in African American History. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820333263

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9780820333267

Flush Times and Fever Dreams

A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson

By: Joshua D. Rothman

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A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson

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Reforming America, 1815-1860

A Norton Documents Reader

By: Joshua D. Rothman

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Reforming America, 1815-1860

A Norton Documents Reader

By: Joshua D. Rothman

Reforming America, 1815-1860 offers insights into one of the most complex and dynamic periods in American history.

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W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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0393932265

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9780393932263

Mensch-Marks

Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi—Wisdom for Untethered Times

By: Joshua Hammerman

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Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi—Wisdom for Untethered Times

By: Joshua Hammerman

The Talmud states, "In a world that lacks humanity, be human." In a world as untethered as ours has become, simply being human, a good person, is a measure of heroism. At a time when norms of civility are being routinely overwhelmed, it may be the only measure that matters. Mensch-Marks represents Rabbi Joshua Hammerman's personal Torah scroll—the sacred text of his experiences, the life lessons he has learned along his winding, circuitous journey. Mirroring 42 steps Israel wandered in the Wilderness, Hammerman offers 42 brief essays, several of which first appeared in The New York Times Magazine, organized into categories of character, or "mensch-marks," each one a stepping stone toward spiritual maturation. These essays span most of Rabbi Hammerman's life, revealing how he has striven to be a "mensch," a human of character, through every challenge. Mensch-Marks creates a brand-new genre. It is memoir as sacred story, as how-to book; a series of personal vignettes in dialogue with one another over the span of decades, resonating with eternal ideas that span centuries. It traces the author's own personal growth while providing a road map for people of all backgrounds seeking a life of moral vision. The wisdom is shared not from a pulpit on high, but rather from an unfolding story of a fellow traveler, one who has stumbled, failed, and persevered, struggling with the questions large and small. Through it all, Rabbi Hammerman has tried to live with dignity and grace, what he calls the "nobility of normalcy." He writes, "If by sharing what I've learned, I can add a modicum of generosity, honesty and human connection in a world overflowing with cruelty, loneliness and deceit, then I'll have done my job.' The essays cover crucial moments of failure and forgiveness, loving and letting go, finding deeper meaning in one's work, and holiness in the seemingly inconsequential moments of everyday life. Rabbi Hammerman, ever the optimist, believes that we can turn things around, one mensch at a time.

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267

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Simon and Schuster

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075732178X

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9780757321788

Book's by Joshua D. Rothman

The Ledger and the Chain

The Ledger and the Chain

The Ledger and the Chain

The Ledger and the Chain

Flush Times and Fever Dreams

Flush Times and Fever Dreams

Flush Times and Fever Dreams

Flush Times and Fever Dreams

Reforming America, 1815-1860

Reforming America, 1815-1860

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