Republic of Debtors Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence

Author/creator Mann, Bruce H. Author
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
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Publication InfoCambridge : Harvard University Press
Description358 p.
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Summary Annotation Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and the right to imprison debtors was unquestioned. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In Republic of Debtors, <author>Bruce H. Mann illuminates this crucial transformation in early American society.
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