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Debt, Investment, Slaves: Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-85
Author(s): Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr. (Author)
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication Date: 31 Aug. 1994
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0817307303
- ISBN-13: 9780817307301
Book Description
A comprehensive study of the credit system in one Louisiana parish in the antebellum and postbellum periods of the American Civil War. The book’s primary concern is the role of slave property in collateralising credit relationships and planter perceptions regarding slaves as financial assets.
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About the Author
Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr., is a partner in the Kilbourne Law Offices, Clinton, Louisiana. Gavin Wright is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Stanford University.
