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

Published London : Pickering & Chatto, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (v, 202 pages) Series Financial history ; no. 1 Financial history (London, England) ; no. 1. Contents Contents; Introduction; Exchange and Money Markets; The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831-1836; Pennsylvania and Mississippi: The United States Bank, 1836-1841; Assignments, Preferences and Trusts; The Business of Making Collections; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets looks at financing slave agriculture from the perspective of credit intermediaries such as chartered banks and commercial partnerships. It explains in detail how the Bank of the United States supported the governments and the nations credit abroad by providing seemingly limitless credit facilities to southern planters, especially in the newly opened territories along the lower Mississippi River Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Bank of the United States (1816-1836) SUBJECT Bank of the United States (1816-1836) fast Second Bank of the United States gnd Subject Banks and banking -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century Credit -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century Finance -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance. Banks and banking Credit Finance Slavery -- Economic aspects Kreditwesen Finanzwirtschaft Landwirtschaft Sklaverei Mississippi Staat Mississippi Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 1429413476 9781429413473 9781851965403 1851965408

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