Debt, investment, slaves :: credit relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-1885 /

A thorough survey of parish mortgage records and other manuscript collections led to the conclusion that most credit relationships, collateralized and uncollateralized, were grounded in slave property as opposed to land or other forms of wealth. Uncollateralized debt was directly dependent on the re...

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1. Verfasser: Kilbourne, Richard Holcombe
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1995.
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Zusammenfassung:A thorough survey of parish mortgage records and other manuscript collections led to the conclusion that most credit relationships, collateralized and uncollateralized, were grounded in slave property as opposed to land or other forms of wealth. Uncollateralized debt was directly dependent on the relative wealth of parish residents, and the bulk of most portfolios consisted of slaves. Emancipation and the Civil War occasioned a monumental credit implosion from which the local economy never recovered, at least for the remainder of the 19th century. Kilbourne make.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvii, 201 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index.
ISBN:0585161682
9780585161686
0817387552
9780817387556

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