By Calvin Schermerhorn Available from Amazon.com Calvin Schermerhorn’s provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demonstrate how slavery was a national business supported by far-flung monetary and … [Read more...] about The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860