Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management

Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
ISBN-10
0674988574
ISBN-13
9780674988576
Category
History
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2018-08-06
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Caitlin Rosenthal

Description

Caitlin Rosenthal explores quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations, showing how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizations and used complex accounting tools. By demonstrating that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery.

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