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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... failed , as they did in droves in the financial collapse of the 1790s , numerous prominent men found themselves imprisoned for their debts or fugitives from their credi- tors . Their presence in the pool of insolvent debtors confounded ...
... failure to economic failure , was not complete by the end of the eigh- teenth century . Nor is it yet . Although weakened , Moody's moral econ- omy of debt still shaped attitudes toward insolvency in the Revolutionary era , whether as ...
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