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Debt, investment, slaves : credit relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-1885 / Richard Holcombe Kilbourne, Jr. ; foreword by Gavin Wright.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 201 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585161682
  • 9780585161686
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Debt, investment, slaves.DDC classification:
  • 332.7/0976316 20
LOC classification:
  • HG3756.U54 K55 1995eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Introduction; 1. The Origins of the Antebellum Credit System: The Accommodation Endorser; 2. The Emergence of Factors as Investment Bankers; 3. Securing Antebellum Credit Transactions with Slaves; 4. The Nemesis of Prewar Debt; 5. The Truncation of the Factorage System; 6. Decline and Default; 7. Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Furnishers; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Summary: A thorough survey of parish mortgage records and other manuscript collections led to the conclusion that most credit relationships, collateralized and uncollateralized, were grounded in slave property as opposed to land or other forms of wealth. Uncollateralized debt was directly dependent on the relative wealth of parish residents, and the bulk of most portfolios consisted of slaves. Emancipation and the Civil War occasioned a monumental credit implosion from which the local economy never recovered, at least for the remainder of the 19th century. Kilbourne make.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index.

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Foreword; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Introduction; 1. The Origins of the Antebellum Credit System: The Accommodation Endorser; 2. The Emergence of Factors as Investment Bankers; 3. Securing Antebellum Credit Transactions with Slaves; 4. The Nemesis of Prewar Debt; 5. The Truncation of the Factorage System; 6. Decline and Default; 7. Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Furnishers; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

A thorough survey of parish mortgage records and other manuscript collections led to the conclusion that most credit relationships, collateralized and uncollateralized, were grounded in slave property as opposed to land or other forms of wealth. Uncollateralized debt was directly dependent on the relative wealth of parish residents, and the bulk of most portfolios consisted of slaves. Emancipation and the Civil War occasioned a monumental credit implosion from which the local economy never recovered, at least for the remainder of the 19th century. Kilbourne make.

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