Accounting for Slavery

Accounting for Slavery
Author: Caitlin Rosenthal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2019-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674241657


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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.