The American Slave Coast

A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette

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Chicago Review Press
10 July 2017

History of the Americas; Slavery & abolition of slavery; Economic history

The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of ""breeding women"" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could only be decommissioned by Emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light.

By: Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
Imprint: Chicago Review Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 45mm
Weight: 1.093kg
ISBN: 9781613738931
ISBN 10: 1613738935
Pages: 768
Publication Date: 10 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ned Sublette is the author of Cuba and Its Music, The World that Made New Orleans, and The Year Before the Flood. Constance Sublette published, as Constance Ash, the novels The Horsegirl, The Stalking Horse, and The Stallion QueenNew York City.

Reviews for The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

""The Sublettes offer an economic history and theory of slavery that is blunt in its assessment, unassailable in its argument and accessible to a general reader."" --The Guardian ""A massive story of impressive research..."" --Kirkus Reviews ""Ned and Constance Sublette have provided the world with one of the best history books ever written about the United States. Nominally about the slave breeding industry in the US South, The American Slave Coast is actually a sweeping, in-depth survey of the nation known as the United States."" --Counterpunch