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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*Trammel wrote book The Economics of Slavery in Richmond.
* Dem candidate against Brat, for cantor's 'seat'
Cha
(295,914 posts)Heard it on Chris Hayes show. Sounds interesting to me.
Cha
(295,914 posts)running against the guy who beat eric cantor.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)Now hopefully he can upset the teabag professor of evilnomics.
elleng
(130,153 posts)especially with July 4 coming up.
RichGirl
(4,119 posts)elleng
(130,153 posts)Randolph-Macon College Professor and Director of Disability Support Services Jack Trammell will discuss his latest book, The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of The Old Dominion (The History Press, 2012), at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, 2012 in the Washington Room, Washington-Franklin Hall. A book signing will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public.
Few people appreciate the extent to which the American slave economy fueled national industrialization and an encompassing continental economic growth. After the ban on the international slave trade in 1808, the North American slave trade gravitated and eventually centered along Wall Street in Richmond, Virginia. The capitalized value of slave labor became as important as the dollar itself, a commodity to be loaned, bought and sold, speculated on, and eventually even serving as a means of financing a fratricidal Civil War. Learn more about this trade, and in the process, challenge some of the sacred myths that still persist about the history of slavery in America.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)Shampoobra
(423 posts)I just downloaded the Kindle edition. From the forward:
I can imagine this book becoming an issue in the campaign, which will probably result in some magical "moran" moments from Virginia tea partiers.
elleng
(130,153 posts)Dem party will have to get off its a** and get him some resources.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)And fiction is tough to write so they'll find something.
This seems uncontroversial and I think it would be dangerous to attack him over history.
Basically they need a non-issue to make into an issue.