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Slavery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Robin L. Einhorn
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Abstract

The history of slavery cannot be separated from the history of business in the United States, especially in the context of the relationship between public power and individual property rights. This essay suggests that the American devotion to “sacred” property rights stemsmore from the vulnerability of slaveholding elites than to a political heritage of protection for the “common man.”

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 2008, pp. 491 - 506
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2008. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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