Joshua D. Rothman

Joshua Daniel Rothman is an American historian. He is a professor and chair for the department of history at the University of Alabama.

• [During slavery,] Americans built a culture of speculation unique in its abandon.
  • Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson (2012), as quoted in Matthew Desmond, "In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation", The New York Times Magazine (August 14, 2019)

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