The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery
business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding
women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how
slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings
accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply
embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could only be
decommissioned by Emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in
the history of the United States. The American Slave Coast is an
alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery
business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a
revealing new light.