Slavery and Capitalism

What is the price of a human being? This episode explores the darkest stain on the history of US economics; slavery. 

The American south was one of the richest regions on the planet in the 1850s.  Yet, despite their cash, many historians consider the American south economically backwards. This episode describes the industry of slavery, the make up of the South's economy and how a division in economic, political, and cultural ideals  sent the country careening towards the Civil War.