Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American IndependenceHarvard University Press, 2002 - 344 pages 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, Bruce H. Mann illuminates this crucial transformation in early American society. |
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... dependence and independence , slavery and freedom . And when numerous prominent men - including the richest man in America and a justice of the Supreme Court - found themselves imprisoned for debt or forced to become fugitives from ...
... dependence of debtors and the omnipotence and inherent justness of creditors . Within that framework inability to pay was a moral failure , not a business risk . Like other moral failures , such as fornication or drunkenness , it called ...
... dependence on a husband , a father , a master , or an owner . That had always been the case in early America . But whereas the problem of insolvency had once been limited to relatively simple issues of enforc- ing debtors ' obligations ...
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Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence Bruce H Mann Limited preview - 2009 |
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