Introduction : banking in the nation's largest slave market -- Part I. Financing southwestern expansion through the 1810s. The limits of early bank financing of slavery -- Adapting slave financing to the needs of the frontier South during the nation's first boom and bust -- Part II. Financing an...

The elusive sovereign -- Paper money and the problem of circulation in the colonial era -- John Wise and the natural law of commerce -- William Douglass and the natural history of credit -- Commercial banking and the problem of representation in the Jacksonian era -- William Leggett and the...