Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University. Seth Rockman is Associate Professor of History at Brown University.

Introduction. Slavery's Capitalism—Sven Beckert and Seth RockmanPART I. PLANTATION TECHNOLOGIESChapter 1. Toward a Political Economy of Slave Labor: Hands, Whipping-Machines, and Modern Power—Edward E. BaptistChapter 2. Slavery's Scientific Management: Masters and Managers—Caitlin RosenthalChapter 3. An International Harvest: The Second Slavery, the Virginia-Brazil Connection, and the Development of the McCormick Reaper—Daniel B. RoodPART II. SLAVERY AND FINANCEChapter 4. Neighbor-to-Neighbor Capitalism: Local Credit Networks and the Mortgaging of Slaves—Bonnie MartinChapter 5. The Contours of Cotton Capitalism: Speculation, Slavery, and Economic Panic in Mississippi, 1832-1841—Joshua D. RothmanChapter 6. "Broad is de Road dat Leads ter Death": Human Capital and Enslaved Mortality—Daina Ramey BerryChapter 7. August Belmont and the World the Slaves Made—Kathryn BoodryPART III. NETWORKS OF INTEREST AND THE NORTHChapter 8. "What have we to do with slavery?" New Englanders and the Slave Economies of the West Indies—Eric KimballChapter 9. "No country but their counting-houses": The U.S.-Cuba-Baltic Circuit, 1809-1812—Stephen ChambersChapter 10. The Coastwise Slave Trade and a Mercantile Community of Interest—Calvin SchermerhornPART IV. NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND NATURAL BOUNDARIESChapter 11. War and Priests: Catholic Colleges and Slavery in the Age of Revolution—Craig Steven WilderChapter 12. Capitalism, Slavery, and the New Epoch: Mathew Carey's 1819—Andrew ShankmanChapter 13. The Market, Utility, and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought—Alfred L. BrophyChapter 14. Why Did Northerners Oppose the Expansion of Slavery? Economic Development and Education in the Limestone South—John MajewskiNotesContributorsIndexAcknowledgments