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*Trammel wrote book The Economics of Slavery in Richmond. (Original Post) elleng Jun 2014 OP
Kicking this for now..thank ellen. Cha Jun 2014 #1
Thanks, Cha. elleng Jun 2014 #3
Very Interesting! And, Jack Trammell will be in the news.. he's the guy Cha Jun 2014 #11
Good For Him standingtall Jun 2014 #2
Yes, and sounds like something I'd like to read, elleng Jun 2014 #4
sounds good RichGirl Jun 2014 #5
FABULOUS! elleng Jun 2014 #6
I hope this post doesn't get alerted. joshcryer Jun 2014 #7
Reading it now Shampoobra Jun 2014 #8
Guess so, if the morons maintain their historical idiocy. elleng Jun 2014 #9
My bet is they'll go after his fiction stuff. joshcryer Jun 2014 #10

Cha

(295,914 posts)
11. Very Interesting! And, Jack Trammell will be in the news.. he's the guy
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 12:08 AM
Jun 2014

running against the guy who beat eric cantor.

elleng

(130,153 posts)
6. FABULOUS!
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 11:41 PM
Jun 2014

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.

Shampoobra

(423 posts)
8. Reading it now
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 11:56 PM
Jun 2014

I just downloaded the Kindle edition. From the forward:

Moving beyond the usual macroscopic emphasis of simply examining the antebellum South as a static entity of masters and slaves, this work provides a paradigmatic shift in its analysis of the vast commercial and ethical contradictions, external constraints, internal dynamics, profitable economics, religious debates and traditional interpretations of antebellum America. Moreover, this monograph explores, on a microscopic level, the reality of the business of the buying and selling of human beings as chattel property. Hence, its emphasis on Richmond’s becoming the "Wall Street of the Confederacy" accurately locates a set of physical places and spaces whose commercial, financial, monetary and psychological value is comparable to the value of contemporary Wall Street in New York City.


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)
9. Guess so, if the morons maintain their historical idiocy.
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 12:03 AM
Jun 2014

Dem party will have to get off its a** and get him some resources.

joshcryer

(62,265 posts)
10. My bet is they'll go after his fiction stuff.
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 12:07 AM
Jun 2014

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.

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