Slavery's capitalism / Toward a political economy of slave labor : hands, whipping-machines, and modern power / Slavery's scientific management : masters and managers / An international harvest : the second slavery, the Virginia-Brazil connection, and the development of the McCormick reaper / Neighbor-to-neighbor capitalism : local credit networks and the mortgaging of slaves / The contours of cotton capitalism : speculation, slavery, and economic panic in Mississippi, 1832-1841 / "Broad is de road dat leads ter death" : human capital and enslaved mortality / August Belmont and the world the slaves made / "What have we to do with slavery?" New Englanders and the slave economies of the West Indies / "No country but their counting-houses" : the U.S.-Cuba-Baltic circuit, 1809-1812 / The coastwise slave trade and a mercantile community of interest / War and priests : Catholic colleges and slavery in the Age of Revolution / Capitalism, slavery, and the new epoch : Mathew Carey's 1819 / The market, utility, and slavery in Southern legal thought / Why did Northerners oppose the expansion of slavery? Economic development and education in the limestone South