--- product_id: 126372422 title: "The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry" brand: "ned sublette, constance sublette" price: "R1905" currency: ZAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/126372422-the-american-slave-coast-a-history-of-the-slave-breeding store_origin: ZA region: South Africa --- # The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry **Brand:** ned sublette, constance sublette **Price:** R1905 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by ned sublette, constance sublette - **How much does it cost?** R1905 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.za](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/126372422-the-american-slave-coast-a-history-of-the-slave-breeding) ## Best For - ned sublette, constance sublette enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted ned sublette, constance sublette brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most familiar events and figures in a revealing new light. Authors Ned and Constance Sublette tell the brutal story of how the slavery industry made the reproductive labor of the people it referred to as “breeding women” essential to the young country’s expansion. Captive African Americans in the slave nation were not only laborers, but merchandise and collateral all at once. In a land without silver, gold, or trustworthy paper money, their children and their children’s children into perpetuity were used as human savings accounts that functioned as the basis of money and credit in a market premised on the continual expansion of slavery. Slaveowners collected interest in the form of newborns, who had a cash value at birth and whose mothers had no legal right to say no to forced mating. This gripping narrative is driven by the power struggle between the elites of Virginia, the slave-raising “mother of slavery,” and South Carolina, the massive importer of Africans—a conflict that was central to American politics from the making of the Constitution through the debacle of the Confederacy. Virginia slaveowners won a major victory when Thomas Jefferson’s 1808 prohibition of the African slave trade protected the domestic slave markets for slave-breeding. The interstate slave trade exploded in Mississippi during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, drove the US expansion into Texas, and powered attempts to take over Cuba and other parts of Latin America, until a disaffected South Carolina spearheaded the drive to secession and war, forcing the Virginians to secede or lose their slave-breeding industry. Filled with surprising facts, fascinating incidents, and startling portraits of the people who made, endured, and resisted the slave-breeding industry, The American Slave Coast culminates in the revolutionary Emancipation Proclamation, which at last decommissioned the capitalized womb and armed the African Americans to fight for their freedom. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Dimensions | 5.98 x 1.81 x 9.02 inches | | Edition | Reprint | | Isbn 10 | 1613738935 | | Isbn 13 | 978-1613738931 | | Item Weight | 2.41 pounds | | Language | English | | Print Length | 768 pages | | Publication Date | April 1, 2017 | | Publisher | Chicago Review Press | ## Images ![The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61AC5a7q6hL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ American History at its best! *by on Reviewed in the United States December 9, 2015* The history that most often appears in the high school text does serious damage to the truth of the founding of the country. How often we think we know events and people but soon learn that the real story is much more complicated or even that the original story is a lie. This is the experience I had over and over again as I read this outstanding book. It was well written, thoroughly researched and riveting in providing a new portrait of events that I thought I knew. It's a page-turner. The documentation was exceptional. If only "the people" could know the truth. Well, now you can. By simply reading this book, you learn year-by-year, president-by-president the choices they faced and the decisions they made. The country's constitution is re-aligned. All is contextualized. Often known and repeated quotes appear different, richer, truer. Thought patterns that began then, now have just been updated. The "why" of the pattern is clear. Many new people are presented and interwoven in the saga. The birth, education and experiences of many known people are told in a way that you grasp who they really were, not the ones text books told us about. This book is exceptional and I hope many more people will open their eyes to the true American legacy. We are not the country we have been told. This book adds many new, essential missing pieces. Through the Lens of the Transatlantic Slave Trade ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An eye opener for those who cling to the Lost Cause myth of the Confederacy *by on Reviewed in the United States March 27, 2022* The book goes well beyond the shallow few paragraphs about slavery that I got in school in Illinois, from grade school through college. It lays out the economic reasons that slavery is protected in the US constitution, how it is that among the first 6 presidents of the new nation, 4 were from Virginia. The interweaving of the independence movement and the colonial business of slavery. Well written and meticulously documented, it is the best historical discussion of the economics of slavery that I have come across. It goes into the events not only in the mainland of the Americas, but also the island territories governed by various European powers. The speculation in slaves as just another commodity, the reasons for.market fluctuations in the prices of slaves. How loans collateralized with slaves were bundled by banks and sold as investment vehicles to people who never knew their bonds were backed by the value of slaves. It is a real eye opener. How some big name Wall Street investment firms got started as cotton brokers who traded the occasional coffle of slaves for a plantation owner who needed quick cash before the cotton harvest. It is a real page turner, crisply written with copious footnotes and references, but these never bog down the narrative. I recommend this book to anyone who really wants to understand the history of the USA and its tie to slavery. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant and essential reading *by on Reviewed in the United States October 22, 2015* An absolute MUST READ for anyone who actually wants to understand world history. This should be assigned reading in all high schools. All I was taught was the propaganda that 1) there was slavery in the American South and 2) we had a Civil War that ended it. What a (literal) white-wash. This brilliant book dissects the elements of slavery in America and shows how it permeated ALL of the country, and impacted Britain, France, Africa, and of course the Caribbean.Without hysterics, the authors just tell the FACTS about how our Founding Fathers EMBRACED slavery at every level - from Jefferson's plan to end American slavery by sending slave babies to the Caribbean ("Negro mothers get over loosing a child very quickly") to Ben Franklin's newspaper ads for slave auctions, to the use of slaves as collateral for bank loans. It exposes how slavery wasn't just an isolated Southern "tradition" - SLAVERY WAS THE FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC ECONOMY AND WHITE WEALTH.Eye opening. You will never think of the founding of Amerikkka the same way after you read it. Ours in a country founded on the theft of the lives and labor of millions of captured and enslaved human beings. Profoundly disturbing - which is why everyone in America needs to read it. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/126372422-the-american-slave-coast-a-history-of-the-slave-breeding](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/126372422-the-american-slave-coast-a-history-of-the-slave-breeding) --- *Product available on Desertcart South Africa* *Store origin: ZA* *Last updated: 2026-11-02*