Seth Rockman - Editor
1 book
About the Author
Seth Rockman is a historian whose scholarship examines the deep entanglements between slavery and the emergence of American capitalism. His work situates enslaved labor at the center of economic innovation, tracing how plantation regimes shaped markets, credit systems, and industrial growth in the early republic. Rockman combines meticulous archival research with clear, accessible prose that illuminates the human stakes of economic transformation. He is the author of Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development, a landmark study that reframes the relationship between bondage and modernity.
Common genres
Writing style
meticulous
accessible
analytical
Books by Seth Rockman - Editor
